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West Eminence, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Eminence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65466. It stands on Mahans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eminence quadrangle.

West Eminence within Shannon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of West Eminence between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,006 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 59 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
Arson/incendiarism59
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
9 July 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverSLIDE
18 June 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverEDSMITH
8 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark National Scenic RiverHORSE
7 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark National Scenic RiverWEST
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shannon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of West Eminence: 10 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Manganese, 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
Culpepper ProspectManganeseProspect
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chilton BankIronProspect
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
West Eminence BankIronProspect
Casey MineCopperOccurrenceChalcocite, Malachite
Casey MineCopperPast Producer
Johnson ShaftCopperPast Producer
McKinney MineCopperPast Producer
Slater MineCopperPast Producer1837

Every working recorded in Shannon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Eminence in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWest Eminence-Several trees were reported down. No damage occurred.
July 2003HailWest Eminence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shannon 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
Eminence1.1 miles22
Delaware3.1 miles22
Alley Spring3.7 miles22
Alley3.7 miles22
Munsell3.8 miles22
House Hollow (historical)4.0 miles22
Venice4.8 miles22
Buckhart Springs (historical)5.9 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 728548. 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.