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Bryson, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Green Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65332. The Survey maps it on the Green Ridge South quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Bryson within Pettis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

8,944 words on this township

The History of Pettis County, Missouri, Including an Authentic History of Sedalia, Other Towns and Townships, Together with ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Green Ridge Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Green Ridge Township - 8,944 words.

Fires near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bryson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2020Debris and open burning3.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230786-08048-09302020-1600
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230728-04281-09242020-1407
6 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179237-04281-05062019-1631
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179235-04281-04092019-1620
7 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176636-04281-04072018-1523
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178043-08048-04262018-2212
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176857-04281-04242018-1126
16 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176638-04281-04162018-0507

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pettis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bryson: 1 past producer. 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
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryson in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2025HailBryson-EM reports quarter sized hail near Windsor.
August 2023HailBryson-Quarter sized hail was reported just east of Windsor.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBryson-County dispatch reports multiple trees downed east of Windsor.
August 2016Flash FloodBryson-Route B near Bryson Road was flooded due to heavy rain.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindBryson-Trees and limbs downed near Rt. 52 and Hwy. B

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
Green Ridge4.6 miles19
Manila7.8 miles19
Spring Fork12.7 miles18
La Monte13.7 miles23
Dresden14.0 miles23
Sedalia15.8 miles22
Georgetown17.7 miles18
Stokley17.9 miles23

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 BrysonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4981161The 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 740704. 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.