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Thomure, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Ste. Genevieve Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63670. The Survey maps it on the Prairie du Rocher quadrangle.

Thomure within Ste. Genevieve 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thomure between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2
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
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230661-09540-05112020-1925
12 October 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230840-09540-10122020-2345
19 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176097-80001-01192018-1251

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Thomure: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Inkley Marble QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peerless Mine and MillCalciumProducer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cohen PropertyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Southern Missouri QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomure in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindThomure-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. One of the limbs blocked a roadway.
December 2009Flash FloodThomure-Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on frozen ground, causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Highway B near Highway 32 in Ste. Genevieve county. Also, several streets in downtown Ste. Genevieve were covered with several inches of water.

Every storm recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Little Rock Landing0.1 miles19
Sainte Genevieve1.8 miles19
Mosher2.4 miles19
Saint Jude Acres3.1 miles19
New Bourbon4.3 miles19
Marlo4.7 miles19
Zell5.7 miles18
Quarry Town5.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741320. 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.