BlockThorpe, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65644. The Survey maps it on the Beach quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Niangua quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Niangua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Thorpe between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,145 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 261467-11201-09172020-1604 |
| 9 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177857-03906-08092018-1610 |
| 5 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 95 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 259 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | TURKEY BAIT FIRE |
| 24 March 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 24 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 116 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 134919-05300-03232016-1500 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thorpe in 1 storm report in 2007: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thorpe | - | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a three foot diamter tree across Highway 38 just north of the Dallas and Webster county line. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limekiln Ford (historical) | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Charity | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Boyd | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Handley | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Spring Grove | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| March | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Hico (historical) | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Olive | 6.2 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 727623. 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.