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Sutherland, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65360. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Sutherland within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

14,319 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jefferson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 14,319 words.

Fires near this place

24 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sutherland between 2003 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179238-04281-08212019-1550
19 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2003Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176679-05130-04062018-1031
27 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179236-04281-04272019-1628
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176857-04281-04242018-1126
12 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sutherland: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cooper MineCoal, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls./CoalCoal, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sutherland in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014HailSutherland-no account filed
June 2008HailSutherland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Henrietta1.8 miles19
New Castle2.5 miles19
Leeton5.4 miles19
Owsley5.8 miles19
Burtville6.5 miles19
Post Oak8.5 miles19
Cornelia8.8 miles20
Bristle Ridge9.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741304. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.