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Barry, Missouri

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Gallatin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64118. The Survey maps it on the North Kansas City quadrangle.

Barry within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 40 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Gallatin township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri;, published 1885 - Gallatin Township

Chapter Viii The Mexican War

Army of the West - Platte and Cole Infantry Battalion - Departure of the Expedition - Arrival of Kearney in Santa Fe - Col. Sterling Price - Capt. Morin's Platte County Company - Names of Members - The Ortiz Insurrection - Murder of Gov. Bent and Others - Battle of La Canada - Ambuscade at El Embudo - Storming and Capture of Fort Pueblo de Taos - Other Battles - Massacre and Subsequent Battle at Moro - Engagement at Cienega - The Return Home - Capt.

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In the county-history sources

1,398 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Gallatin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Gallatin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

27 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Barry between 2007 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1
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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Barry: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Drennon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, 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 Clay 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
Gashland1.3 miles40
Thomas Heights1.7 miles40
Linden2.3 miles40
Oakview3.1 miles40
Acme3.1 miles40
Oakwood Park3.3 miles40
Oakwood3.5 miles40
Gladstone3.8 miles40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 713699. 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.