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Westview, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64850. The Survey maps it on the Seneca quadrangle.

Westview within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Westview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

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 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use21 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179423-07334-09092019-1425
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use38 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burning9.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230710-07355-09212020-1311
2 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179425-07334-09102019-1155
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Westview: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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 - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - PbLeadPast Producer
Seneca RacineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Zn & PbLead, ZincPast Producer
RuarkZinc, LeadPast ProducerUnderground
Unknown - Zn & PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Zn & PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - TripoliSilicaPast Producer
Unknown - TripoliSilicaPast Producer
Unknown - TripoliSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westview in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 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 2022Thunderstorm WindWestview$3,000Large limbs and a couple of trees were reported down. A small outbuilding was also blown over.
May 2024HailWestview-Half dollar size hail reported.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindWestview-Several large limbs were reported down on State Highway CC and Norway Road.
August 2016HailWestview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Dessa2.1 miles16
Wela Park3.2 miles16
Belfast4.0 miles15
Racine4.1 miles16
Seneca4.8 miles16
Seneca Quapaw Agency (historical)6.5 miles16
Spurgeon7.2 miles14
McElhany7.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 728657. 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.