Vale, 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.

• 1887 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1894 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
• 1934 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1939 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1996 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 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 23 fires within 5 miles of Vale between 2007 and 2014, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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:

• Union Point
• Delavan (historical)
• Hickman Mills
• Jeffreys
• Knobtown
• Ruskin

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Vale: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vale in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 Jackson County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741332. 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.