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Wesco, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65586. It lies near Lost Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cook Station quadrangle. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Wesco within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Wesco between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,406 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
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
11 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Arson/incendiarism130 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism740 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Wesco: 45 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Copper, 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
Arthur MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Yeary ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Arthur MinesLeadPast Producer1863
Jonas MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Metcalf DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperProspect
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wesco in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2009: 1 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
March 2009Thunderstorm WindWesco-Several large trees were blown down just south of Wesco.
March 2006HailWesco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Goltra2.1 miles19
Klein Ford2.5 miles21
Keysville2.5 miles21
Cook Station3.2 miles19
Cedar Ford3.5 miles21
Lead Branch Junction4.3 miles21
Limberlost5.3 miles19
Cherryville8.2 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 WescoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471063The 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 736364. 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.