Drew, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65470. It lies near Brookshire Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Drew quadrangle.

Drew within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1943 USGS Drynob quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Drew quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Drynob quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Drew quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Drew between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,576 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	173 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2011	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	MAYFIELD SPRING
8 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Mark Twain National Forest	NEW HOME CHURCH
7 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 April 2009	Debris and open burning	49 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	LONG BEARD
22 April 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	CAT TAIL
2 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Drew: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Laclede 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lyons	1.9 miles	17
Jacksonville	2.5 miles	17
Agnes	2.9 miles	17
Clark Ford	4.5 miles	17
Competition	4.9 miles	17
Origanna	5.3 miles	12
Falcon	6.2 miles	17
Orla	6.2 miles	14

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 Drew	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985610	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 749696. 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.