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Claysville, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64062. The Survey maps it on the Lawson quadrangle.

Claysville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

What happened here

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

From History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 - Washington Township

Chapter Xxii The Mormons

MORMON INFLUX TO JACKSON COUNTY IN 1832 - TROUBLE IN JACKSON COUNTYTOOK REFUGE IN CLAY AND OTHER COUNTIES- HOSTILITIES AGAINST MORMONS - MORMONS ARMED - FORCES CONCENTRATED AT FAR WEST - STATE MILITIA CALLED OUT - GENERAL DONIPHAN IN COMMAND^ - MORMONS SURRENDER - JOE SMITH .-YND OTHER LEADERS INDICTED - IN JAIL AT LIBERTY - LEADERS SAVED BY' DONIPHAN - GOVERNOR BOGGS MURDERED - MORMONS REMAIN AWAY FROM STATE FOR FIFTY' YEARS - AT INDEPENDENCE.

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In the county-history sources

43,568 words on this township

History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers location and physical features, hamlets of greenville and claysville, early history, organization, mount vernon missionary baptist church, biographical 498-507.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 43,568 words.

Fires near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Claysville between 1995 and 2018, burning about 66 acres in total. None 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Smoking2
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
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177901-08922-08082018-1512
16 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177896-08922-08162018-1726
9 July 2018Debris and open burning7.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177358-08922-07092018-1629
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177351-08922-04052018-1757

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Claysville: 14 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Clay County Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Doc Gould MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lawson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mays QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mclaughlin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rice QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schoaler & Bates ShaftStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, 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
Greenville2.7 miles22
Excelsior Springs3.9 miles18
Crescent Lake5.0 miles18
Chick (historical)5.6 miles18
Prathersville6.4 miles22
Coopers6.5 miles18
Mosby6.9 miles22
Holt7.9 miles22

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 ClaysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984546The 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 755589. 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.