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Thomas Hill, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Chariton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65244. The Survey maps it on the Prairie Hill quadrangle.

Thomas Hill within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Hill between 2002 and 2016, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined4

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
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135114-02155-03052016-1232
24 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 January 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 January 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomas Hill in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2016Flash FloodThomas Hill-A water rescue was conducted on Road 1150 after heavy rain caused some isolated flash flooding.
October 2000HailThomas Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Darksville4.5 miles9
Hubbard4.7 miles9
Fort Henry4.7 miles16
Clifton Hill5.7 miles15
Randolph Springs7.2 miles16
Huntsville8.1 miles16
Mount Airy10.0 miles15
Kimberly10.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729402. 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.

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.