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Avery, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It lies in ZIP code area 65779. The Survey maps it on the Fristoe quadrangle.

Avery within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Avery between 1992 and 2009, burning about 3,532 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1

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 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism225 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning150 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1995Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning113 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Avery: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Carter DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Baugh-Eads MinesBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avery in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAvery$3,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree onto a car 10 miles north of Wheatland on the Benton and Hickory county line.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Bentonville5.2 miles20
Fristoe5.6 miles20
Fairfield (historical)6.0 miles23
Pom-o-sa Heights7.6 miles23
Dell7.7 miles23
Dell Junction7.7 miles23
Gabriels Mills7.8 miles23
Majorville9.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 713503. 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.