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Yount, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2000. It stands in St. Marys Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63775. It stands on Neece Branch. The Survey maps it on the Patton quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Yount within Perry 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Yount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
18 May 2012Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPUMA
13 April 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179387-02359-04132019-1424
25 March 1995Debris and open burning33 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 1992Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190302-02359-01012020-1314

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yount: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Silver Lake MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yount in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 tornado. 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
October 2021Tornado (EF1)Yount$10,000This short-lived tornado occurred in sparsely populated country near the tiny community of Yount. The tornado crossed Highway J three times, snapping and uprooting trees along its path.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Yount$3,000Several trees and tree limbs were blown down along the north side of Highway BB. Peak winds were estimated near 75 mph.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Corners5.2 miles20
Parker Lake6.0 miles20
Silver Lake6.0 miles18
Millheim8.1 miles17
Highland8.8 miles18
Friendly Valley9.0 miles18
Biehle10.5 miles18
Shakertowne10.6 miles18

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 YountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14704518The 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 753014. 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.