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Buttsville, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64679. The Survey maps it on the Brimson quadrangle.

Buttsville within Grundy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

4,443 words on this township

The History of Grundy County, Missouri : an Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. It Contains a Condensed History of the State of Missouri and Its Chief Cities ... ; Its Pioneer Record, War History, Resources, Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

thirty-five, and the office is the home of Mr. A. Wright, who serves as postmaster. Buttsville proper is located in the central! portion of the township,, but the post-office was removed from there to its present location some time since.

Passage source: The History of Grundy County, Missouri : an Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. It Contains a Condensed History of the State of Missouri and Its Chief Cities ... ; Its Pioneer Record, War History, Resources, Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

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 Washington Township.

Fires near this place

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Buttsville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined10

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
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179007-04067-07042019-1510
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220611-04067-07132020-1215
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178652-04067-04092019-1605
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177154-04067-04072018-1639
12 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178826-04067-04122019-1510
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190304-04067-03062020-1725
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177153-04067-03222018-1713
16 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177152-04067-03162018-0448

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grundy County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Buttsville: 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
Franklin Twp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Weldon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grundy 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
Shott3.5 miles9
Spickard4.6 miles9
Tindall4.9 miles9
Parkerton5.9 miles9
Brimson6.0 miles9
Wyandotte8.8 miles9
Edinburg9.1 miles9
Trenton9.7 miles9

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 ButtsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18379471The 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 759633. 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.