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Dockery, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Richmond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64085. It stands on McDonald Branch. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle.

Dockery within Ray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Richmond township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881 - Richmond Township

A Terrible Cyclone

On June 1, A. D. 1878, the city of Richmond was visited by one of the most violent and destructive cyclones that ever passed over this section of the country. Nearly every thing in its pathway was utterly demolished. Huge trees were torn up by the roots, buildings swept away, and human and animal life destroyed.

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In the county-history sources

31,040 words on this township

History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Richmond Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Richmond Township - 31,040 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dockery between 2002 and 2018, burning about 1 acre 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 March 2002Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 December 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178226-08922-12182018-1833

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Dockery: 14 past producers. 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
Bates QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Case QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Garner QsuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson QsuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ray County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dockery in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDockery-A thunderstorm wind gust to 75 mph was estimated.
July 2008Flash FloodDockery-Flooding was observed at the intersection of Highway 13 and 144th Street.
April 2011HailDockery-no account filed
May 2003HailDockery-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ray 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
Swanwick3.9 miles17
Rayville4.0 miles17
Millville4.8 miles15
Saint Cloud5.0 miles17
Richmond5.7 miles15
Knoxville6.1 miles17
Morton7.4 miles15
Elkhorn7.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716932. 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.