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Zell, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ste. Genevieve Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63670. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weingarten quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Zell within Ste. Genevieve County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Zell between 2014 and 2020, burning about 21 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use13 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230754-09540-09302020-1250
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178140-09533-08082018-1050
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230661-09540-05112020-1925
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178124-09533-03242018-1600
12 December 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178033-09502-12122018-1530
12 October 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230840-09540-10122020-2345
25 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178095-09533-01252018-1135

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Zell: 22 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Inkley Marble QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peerless Mine and MillCalciumProducer
Peter Naeger ProspectIronPast Producer
Sainte GenevieveCopper, Silver, Iron, LeadPast Producer1863, 1876, 1916
Ste. Genevieve Mines (Cornwall, Chicago, Swansea, Crow, Herzog)Copper, LeadPast Producer1863, 1876
Unknown - Ls DimensionLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cornwall Copper MineCopperPast Producer1863, 1876

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zell in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
March 2020Thunderstorm WindZell-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and blew an awning off of a residence just north of U.S. Highway 61.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindZell-Thunderstorm winds blew over a couple of empty semi trailers at a business on Kimmel Lake Road just south of Highway O. A couple of large tree limbs were blown down as well.
April 2015HailZell-no account filed
July 2010HailZell-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindZell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Marlo1.6 miles19
Copper Mine3.4 miles18
Lake Forest Estates3.5 miles18
Mosher3.7 miles19
New Offenburg4.2 miles18
Rocky Ridge Ranch5.3 miles18
Saint Jude Acres5.5 miles19
Bloomsdale5.6 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 ZellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14704519The 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 729223. 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.