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Yukon, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ozark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65468. The Survey maps it on the Raymondville quadrangle. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Yukon within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Yukon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 215 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
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
6 August 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Yukon: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Fred SuttonIronPast Producer1953
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Baker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yukon in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2026HailYukon$25,000Hail to the size of hen eggs fell in a mainly rural area. A home and a few outbuilding along with at least one vehicle had some minor damage.
May 2025HailYukon$10,000Report of golf ball size hail.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindYukon$5,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindYukon$1,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed a large tree which fell on a trailer home.
March 2025HailYukon-Hail to 2.25 inches in diameter fell in Yukon.
October 2019Heavy RainYukon-The CoCoRaHS station MO-TX-7 near Houston reported 5.21 inches of rainfall.
July 2015Flash FloodYukon-There was a high water rescue along Foster Road.
March 2017HailYukon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Big Creek2.6 miles17
Samoa3.4 miles19
Eunice4.1 miles17
Raymondville4.7 miles18
Tyrone5.0 miles18
Solo6.2 miles18
Houston6.8 miles19
Mineral Springs City6.9 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 YukonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471041The 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 729215. 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.