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Ulman, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Glaze Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65083. The Survey maps it on the Tuscumbia quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Ulman within Miller 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Ulman between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,582 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism15
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
16 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined240 acresMissouri Department of ConservationROCK QUARRY RD. BRUMLEY
6 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 July 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ulman: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Barium-Barite. 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
Lambert MineSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Lionel Libbert MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown-BaBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown-LsLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown-LsLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
William Whetnall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dobson BankIronPast Producer
Goodrich BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ulman in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindUlman$20,000Winds estimated between 60 and 70 mph caused significant damage to an outbuilding and snapped several trees.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindUlman$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down around Ulman and across Miller County. There was video of this wind damage on social media.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindUlman$5,000no account filed
April 2014Thunderstorm WindUlman-Several trees were reported down in the Van Cleve area.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Watkins3.9 miles19
Brumley5.1 miles19
Tuscumbia5.6 miles19
Faith7.2 miles19
Keethtown7.7 miles19
Kaiser7.8 miles22
Samtown8.1 miles19
Capps9.0 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 UlmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471009The 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 727950. 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.