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Turley, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Upton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65552. It stands on Burkhart Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roubidoux quadrangle.

Turley within Texas 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Turley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 754 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
30 July 2012Natural5.2 acresMark Twain National ForestKFTO
7 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation123530-10744-04072015-1702
12 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestPOST OAK
1 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use36 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190176-10735-03082020-1535
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMark Twain National ForestWOLF
6 March 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2016Debris and open burning12 acresMark Twain National ForestCORNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas 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 Turley: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, 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
Unknown - ClayKaolinPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turley in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 3 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 2017Thunderstorm WindTurley$1,000A tree fell on a power line south of Plato.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTurley-Wind gusts up to 60 mph were estimated.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTurley-The public estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Roubidoux2.5 miles15
Windy Curve3.9 miles15
Plato4.5 miles19
Success5.0 miles15
Old Success5.1 miles15
Roby5.3 miles19
Upton5.5 miles14
Pleasant Ridge5.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 752614. 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.