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Trail, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65638. It lies near Stephens Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Gentryville quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Trail within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Trail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230713-07726-09172020-1550
13 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1995Debris and open burning85 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 1995Debris and open burning37 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 August 1999Natural2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark 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 Trail: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
John SkilesIronProspect1953

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trail in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
July 2016LightningTrail$200,000Dora, Eastern Douglas County and Caney Mountain volunteer fire departments worked together July 26 to extinguish a house fire on Tetrick Lane. The firefighters were able to extinguish the flames before the house burned to the ground, but the home was a complete loss. The report was made to the Ozark County Sheriffs Department at 2:55 p.m. The fire was a result of a lightning strike that entered the structure through telephone lines, according to the Dora VFD.
October 2019Tornado (EF1)Trail$100,000A National Weather Service survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado started near Bryant Creek to the southwest of Dora in northern Ozark County before crossing into southeastern Douglas County finally lifting northeast of Dora. The tornado heavily damaged numerous outbuildings and trees along Highway CC southwest of Dora. Two mobile homes were also damaged along Highway CC, with one of the mobile homes losing a roof and being pulled off its foundation. The tornado then crossed into Douglas County just north of County Road 382 just east of Highway 181 and continued for another 7 miles. The tornado was on the ground for a total of 12 minutes the first 6 of which were in Ozark County. The total path length was 13.05 miles with a maximum wind of 105 mph, and a maximum path width of 1/4 mile.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindTrail$5,000Multiple large trees were reported dawn with one tree on a home causing minor damage.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTrail$1,000A report from social media indicated several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2019Heavy RainTrail-The Mesonet station DW1762 at Dora reported 3.20 inches of rainfall.
November 2015Heavy RainTrail-There was a report of 2.33 inches of rainfall measured in 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Toccoa3.4 miles15
Bird Springs3.5 miles14
Dora4.2 miles15
Cross Roads4.4 miles14
Sycamore4.6 miles12
Brixey5.9 miles13
Zanoni6.0 miles12
Rockbridge6.2 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 TrailAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469225The 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 741328. 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.