Dennis Acres, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shoal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64804. The Survey maps it on the Joplin West quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.
On record in Dennis Acres
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Bonnie & Clyde Garage Apartmentlisted 2009 · 0.8 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresDennis Acres fell from 76 to 47 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 76 | |
| 2020 | 47 | -29 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Joplin West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Joplin West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
107 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Dennis Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220610-07341-08092020-1309 |
| 6 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 955 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 955 workings within 5 miles of Dennis Acres: 955 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirshmann-Jeffries Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Zn/Pb | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Cox and Owen Stokes Lease | Zinc | Past Producer | 1915 | |
| J&M Mining Co.-Ben Putnam | Zinc | Past Producer | 1895 | |
| Unknown | Zinc | Past Producer | 1890, 1916 | |
| Opossum Hollow Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Taxbox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 0.6 miles | 19 | |
| Sunnyvale | 0.6 miles | 19 | |
| Leawood | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Shoal Creek Drive | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Gateway Drive | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Cliff Village | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Grand Falls Plaza | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Silver Creek | 1.8 miles | 19 |
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 Dennis Acres | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3142431 | The 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 716834. 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.










