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Tiff City, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McMillen Tiff Township. The Survey maps it on the Tiff City quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Tiff City within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Tiff City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,643 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes3
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
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMiami AgencyWINNEY
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use580 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30434
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30563
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30561
6 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMiami AgencyLOST
11 August 2011Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30438

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tiff City: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, 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
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Unknown - Zinc & LeadLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Zinc & LeadLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiff City in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 6 hail, 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
April 2026HailTiff City-Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindTiff City-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Tiff City and Pineville.,
May 2017HailTiff City-no account filed
July 2003HailTiff City-no account filed
May 2001HailTiff City-no account filed
June 2001HailTiff City-no account filed
December 1997HailTiff City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Enterprise (historical)0.5 miles15
Coy4.5 miles15
Hart4.8 miles15
May7.6 miles16
Splitlog8.8 miles13
Anderson9.3 miles13
Saratoga9.3 miles13
Lanagan9.9 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Tiff CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469260The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 727650. 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.