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Tilsit, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Hubble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63755. The Survey maps it on the Gordonville quadrangle.

Tilsit within Cape Girardeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Tilsit between 1996 and 2020, burning about 65 acres 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179144-01617-09162019-1108
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179194-01617-09162019-1108
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179143-01617-09162019-1057
11 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230867-01617-09112020-1605
30 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177850-01617-08302018-1337
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tilsit: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Thomas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kasten Clay Products Pit & PlantClayProducer
Unknown ClayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tilsit in 1 storm report in 2014: 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 2014Thunderstorm WindTilsit$15,000Minor roof damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Houck2.1 miles19
Gordonville3.6 miles19
Burfordville4.3 miles18
Jackson5.4 miles19
Gravel Hill5.5 miles18
Crump5.8 miles18
Stroderville (historical)6.9 miles18
Dutchtown6.9 miles19

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 TilsitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26854039The 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 727662. 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.