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Upton, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Upton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65444. The Survey maps it on the Huggins quadrangle.

Upton within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Upton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 1997Natural2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation123530-10744-04072015-1702
17 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas 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 Upton: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upton in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2018Tornado (EF1)Upton$20,000An EF-1 tornado with maximum width of 50 yards and estimated winds up to 95 mph tore through rural portions of Texas County. The track was just over a mile long. There was damage to a roof, carport, several outbuildings, and trees.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindUpton$1,000A large machine shed was blown 40 feet.
April 1999HailUpton-no account filed

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
Pleasant Ridge0.5 miles14
Dykes3.5 miles14
Roubidoux3.8 miles15
Huggins3.8 miles14
Plum Valley4.4 miles14
Fairview4.9 miles14
Alice5.0 miles14
Bendavis5.4 miles14

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 UptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471002The 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 728081. 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.