Drewel Ford, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Third Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65014. It lies near Gerloff Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cooper Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Drewel Ford within Gasconade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1934 USGS Bland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Bland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cooper Hill quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Drewel Ford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
21 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177870-03731-06092018-1420
9 May 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	200556-03734-03062020-1425
6 March 1994	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
31 March 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gasconade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Drewel Ford (historical): 21 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Osage County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Fe	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Dingley Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gasconade 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
Valentine Ford	0.8 miles	16
Suelthaus Ford	2.3 miles	16
Witte Ford (historical)	3.4 miles	16
New Woollam	3.8 miles	16
Old Woollam	4.5 miles	16
Mount Sterling	4.6 miles	16
Old Bland	5.9 miles	16
Bland	6.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740814. 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.