BlockYork, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64491. The Survey maps it on the Tarkio East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Tarkio quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Tarkio quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Tarkio quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Tarkio East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of York between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179098-00307-05292019-1202 |
| 3 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190124-00307-03032020-1154 |
| 29 November 2018 | Other causes | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178134-00307-11292018-1514 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names York in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | York | $500 | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. An anchored wooden playset was torn from the ground and destroyed, near the intersection of Highway 46 and Highway N. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | York | - | A road sign was blown over at County Line Road and Highway 136. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | York | - | A wind turbine near Tarkio recorded a 76 mph wind gust. The height of the wind turbine is unknown. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | York | - | Media report of a tree down along HWY 136 near State Route N. It is unknown what type of tree or how large it was. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | York | - | In Watson there was water up to the hood of a car. Much of the town was flooded. There was also a partial road collapse on 140th Street near State Highway B after 3 to 5 inches of rain fell over that area. While there was likely some damage to roadways and personal property, it is unknown how much monetary damage was incurred as a result of this flooding. |
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.
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 York | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q26720976 | The 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 738574. 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.
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.