BlockCypress, Missouri
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64670. It stands on Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffey quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1948 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Coffey quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maryville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Salem township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Henry W. Githens
Was born in Decatur county, Indiana, in 1823, and is the son of Samuel and Jane Githens. His father was one of the pioneers of Indiana. Mr. Githens received a limited education in the schools of his native county. He moved to Daviess county, Missouri, in 1844, where he resided eight months, when he was attacked with the "Grand River Ague," which so discouraged him that he left Missouri in disgust, returning to Indiana, where he remained five years, when he again moved to Missouri, and has lived here most of the time sinee, and owns a fine farm of 160 acres.
In the county-history sources
3,987 words on this townshipThe History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Salem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Salem township comprises five-sixths of congressional township sixty-one and six sections off of township sixty-two, in range twenty-eight. It is bounded on the north by Harrison county; on the east by Washington township; on the south by Marion and Grand River; on the West by Benton. The principal streams are Cypress Creek, Hog Creek and Brushy Creek. All of these flow southward and empty into the Grand River. Probably two-thirds of the township's soil consists of high, undulating prairie; but there is an abundance of timber sufficient for the wants of the people. The township contains twenty-three thousand and seven and fittytwo one-hundredths acres.
Passage source: The History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882.
The first settlers in Salem township were Jonathan and Alexander Liggett, who came about the year 1837, and were from Tennessee. Jonathan Liggett staked out his claim on section twenty and Alexander located on section eighteen, township sixty-one, range twenty-eight. Soon after there came to the township Aurelius Richardson, A, G. Dergin, and Matthew Harboard, who settled in the vicinity of where the village of Salem now stands. Old John Severe settled on section twenty in 1841, and built a water-mil] at the Rocky Ford on Cypress Creek. This was the first mill in the township and in this section of country, and was resorted to by the settlers for miles around. The mill stood until 1845 when it was washed away by a flood, and never rebuilt, There are no mills in the township at present, but there are pienty within a reasonable distance.
Passage source: The History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cypress between 1997 and 2007, burning about 70 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 February 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 February 2002 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 December 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Cypress: 11 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snyder Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Benton Township Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Benton Twnshp Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Civil Bend Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Civil Bend Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| I-35 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pattensburg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pattonsburg | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Old Pattonsburg | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Civil Bend | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Salem Coffey P O and Station | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Coffey | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Jameson | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Madelaine (historical) | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wabash Crossing | 10.6 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740174. 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.