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Tiff, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63674. It stands on Shibboleth Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tiff quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Tiff within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Tiff between 1992 and 2018, burning about 757 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning13
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism22 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 July 2014Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 69 workings within 5 miles of Tiff: 40 past producers, 19 producers, 5 prospects, 4 unknowns. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Iron, Clay. 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
Campbell MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Shale & ClayClayPast Producer
De Lore ProspectIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Bellefontaine MinesLeadPast Producer
Cannon MinesLeadPast Producer
Murphy's MineLeadPast Producer
Prairie DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiff in 1 storm report in 2011: 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 2011Thunderstorm WindTiff-Thunderstorm winds blew the corrugated roof off of a chicken coop and overturned the coop. Also, several large tree limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Bellefontaine2.5 miles18
Cadet2.9 miles20
Shibboleth2.9 miles18
Baryties3.0 miles18
Maddens Richwoods3.3 miles18
Cannon Mines3.4 miles18
White (historical)3.9 miles20
Happy Hollow4.0 miles18

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 TiffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5269820The 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 727649. 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.