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Violet, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65663. The Survey maps it on the Polk quadrangle.

Violet within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Violet between 1994 and 2011, burning about 506 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 April 2001Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Violet: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Mcreynolds QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - FireclayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Violet in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 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 2011Flash FloodViolet$250,000Eight low water crossings were flooded along the Pomme De Terre River. Six other county roads were flooded at low water crossing throughout the county.||The total cost estimate for flooding damages for Polk County for this entire episode has been included. This includes roads, bridges, and structures which were affected.
September 2014Flash FloodViolet$50,000Several county roads were reported flooded and damaged across the northern portions of Polk County.
April 2023HailViolet-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindViolet-A couple large trees were blown down across South 150th Road.
April 2014HailViolet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Dewey (historical)2.9 miles19
Huron3.8 miles19
Goodson4.3 miles19
Burns4.4 miles16
Polk4.4 miles19
Halfway5.3 miles17
Bolivar6.0 miles17
Mohawk Corner6.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 728212. 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.