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Amy, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65626. The Survey maps it on the Caulfield quadrangle. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.

Amy within Howell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Amy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 375 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4

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
29 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220570-14639-06072020-1322
5 May 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Amy: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Iron, Lead. 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
Ball MineLeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
C&G MineIronPast Producer1950
M. H. Webb ProspectIronOccurrenceSurface
Unknown - IronIronUnknown
Virgil LambethIronOccurrence1910
Elmer Spencer ProspectZincPast Producer
G and G MineZincPast Producer1893
PackardZincPast Producer1893
Rex MineZincPast Producer1893

Every working recorded in Howell 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
Hocomo0.6 miles12
Egypt Grove1.6 miles12
South Fork2.7 miles13
Arditta3.2 miles12
Moody5.3 miles13
Caulfield5.4 miles12
Leota5.4 miles12
China5.5 miles13

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 AmyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460207The 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 713270. 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.