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Baryties, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kingston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63626. It stands on Clancy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tiff quadrangle.

Baryties within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Baryties between 1992 and 2018, burning about 786 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176456-05007-04042018-1829
4 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135311-05007-04042016-1613
2 April 1994Arson/incendiarism48 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176570-05007-04182018-1252

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Baryties: 51 past producers, 16 producers, 4 prospects, 3 unknowns. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Iron, Lead, Zinc. 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
Mammoth MineBarium-Barite, Clay, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Shale & ClayClayPast Producer
Campbell MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Lee's DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Skewe's & Valle's Copper MinesCopperPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
De Lore ProspectIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Vineland Tunnel & Hill ShaftIronPast Producer
Bellefontaine MinesLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baryties in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
November 2024Flash FloodBaryties-Heavy rain caused water to run over Route CC near Highway 21 and Route E east of Potosi.
April 2011Flash FloodBaryties-Between 4 and 6 inches of rain fell over several days causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Route E.
May 2011HailBaryties-no account filed
September 2008HailBaryties-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBaryties-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Maddens Richwoods0.3 miles18
Fertile1.7 miles18
Cannon Mines2.2 miles18
Tiff3.0 miles18
Bellefontaine3.3 miles18
Cruise Mill4.2 miles18
Theabeau Town4.2 miles18
Rabbitville4.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 738352. 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.