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Emerald Beach, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1999. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65658. It stands on Viney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Golden quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Emerald Beach within Barry County

Population over time

2 figures

Emerald Beach fell from 228 to 212 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.

YearPeople Change
2010228
2020212-16 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Emerald Beach between 1992 and 1999, burning about 383 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 July 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 June 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Emerald Beach: 9 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Lead, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Iron-Lead-ZincIron, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincProspect
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beydler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chas High QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Knob Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Knob Rock Quarry + MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
W H Sperry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry 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
Mano1.4 miles15
Arrow Point3.5 miles15
Golden3.7 miles15
Chain-O-Lakes4.0 miles15
Shell Knob4.4 miles16
Eagle Rock4.8 miles13
Oakhill5.5 miles15
Hill City6.2 miles16

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 Emerald BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1335414The 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 1669593. 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.