Turners, Missouri

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.

• 1884 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000
• 1886 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1937 USGS Galloway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1937 USGS Ozark quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Ozark quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Ozark quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Galloway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Galloway quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS Galloway quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Taylor township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Greene County, Missouri .., published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Turners between 1992 and 2017, burning about 286 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Oak Grove Heights
• Expansion
• Mumford
• Nogo
• Cody
• Galloway

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Turners: 36 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, 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.

Every working recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turners in 19 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735893. 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.