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Tiffin, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Speedwell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64744. It stands on Little Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tiffin quadrangle.

Tiffin within St. Clair 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Tiffin between 1992 and 2014, burning about 815 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3

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 September 1999Arson/incendiarism613 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 2011Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 1992Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 February 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 November 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 November 2007Arson/incendiarism130 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tiffin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
Capp's ShaftZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiffin in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1999Tornado (F3)Tiffin1 hurt, $50,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTiffin$2,000no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindTiffin-A wind gust of 67 mph was reported.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindTiffin-A mesonet weather station measured a 67 mph wind gust.
May 2011HailTiffin-no account filed
June 2008HailTiffin-no account filed
June 2008HailTiffin-no account filed
June 2008HailTiffin-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindTiffin-no account filed
June 1998HailTiffin-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindTiffin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Pape1.3 miles19
New Oyer3.5 miles16
Oyer3.6 miles16
Ebb (historical)3.7 miles19
Story (historical)4.7 miles16
Taberville4.7 miles19
Donia5.7 miles19
Crooks Springs5.8 miles16

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 TiffinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28035670The 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 756795. 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.