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Tolona, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63452. It stands on Betsy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle.

Tolona within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Tolona between 1995 and 2018, burning about 210 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
13 June 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140921-02079-06102016-1631
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177807-02079-04292018-1543
12 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140920-02079-04122016-1428
8 March 1997Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 March 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 March 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tolona: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Central MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ewing PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ewing QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Monticello Quarry 8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tolona in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 2 hail. 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 2010HailTolona-no account filed
July 2008HailTolona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Ewing3.1 miles15
Argola3.8 miles10
Gilead3.9 miles15
Sellers4.3 miles15
Lewistown4.5 miles16
Monticello5.5 miles15
New Court Village5.6 miles16
Ten Mile6.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735885. 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.