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Swedeborg, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65556. The Survey maps it on the Crocker quadrangle.

Swedeborg within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Swedeborg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,872 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
21 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation128775-08519-09212015-1445
19 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation127931-08519-06022015-1654
5 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Swedeborg: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Keeth ProspectIronPast Producer
Lentz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Moccasin Bend MineIronPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swedeborg in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
December 2015Flash FloodSwedeborg2 killedSeveral vehicles were washed off of roadways in two separate incidents around Crocker, Missouri. One occurred along the headwaters of Tavern Creek. The other incident was near the Gasconade River. Two people drowned when their car was swept off of Highway O near Dixon.
May 2024HailSwedeborg$10,000Report of 2 inch size hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSwedeborg-A tree was blown down blocking Highway U west of Crocker.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSwedeborg-A large tree was reported down on Highway 133.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSwedeborg-A large tree was reported down.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Swedeborg-no account filed
May 2003HailSwedeborg-no account filed
July 2003HailSwedeborg-no account filed
May 2002HailSwedeborg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Saint John3.1 miles14
Crocker4.3 miles14
Shady Grove4.8 miles16
Ozark Springs5.1 miles16
Richland5.5 miles14
Kieseweltter Resort6.0 miles16
Turkey Ridge6.4 miles16
Pippin Place6.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 727372. 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.