BlockBefore

Tea, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63091. It stands on Block Branch. The Survey maps it on the Owensville East quadrangle.

Tea within Gasconade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Tea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation128630-03623-09222015-1505
26 August 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 April 2020Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation200550-03734-04262020-1710
9 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2003Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gasconade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 175 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 175 workings within 5 miles of Tea: 172 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction, Scandium. 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
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zeman Pit #1ScandiumProducer
Ahring # 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Bullington PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Copleman PitsFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Fisher PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Frey #3Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Havener # 3Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Hemplemann # 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Hohenstreet # 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gasconade County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tea in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2012: 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
September 2012HailTea-Large hail was reported at the intersection of State Highway V and State Highway T.
June 2011HailTea-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gasconade 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
Bem4.5 miles20
Rosebud6.0 miles20
Owensville6.4 miles16
Glaser Ford8.0 miles17
Canaan8.7 miles16
Old Woollam10.5 miles16
New Woollam10.8 miles16
Cleavesville11.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729670. 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.