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Floyd, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Walton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63664. It stands on Montgomery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle.

Floyd within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Floyd between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,684 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning18
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation128011-11043-09052015-1622
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresMark Twain National ForestFLOYD
14 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 August 2017Debris and open burning1.4 acresMark Twain National ForestPOWER POLE
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestLOST CREEK CHURCH
10 July 2012Natural82 acresMark Twain National ForestSCOTTS BRANCH
7 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Floyd: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Krueger Zinc MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Buzzard Roost DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Casey and Clancy DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown-LeadLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Camp Lakewood1.1 miles22
Levy2.8 miles22
Shirley3.1 miles22
Fourche a Renault (historical)5.6 miles19
Ebo5.6 miles19
Latty5.7 miles21
Bates Creek Camp7.5 miles21
Aptus8.0 miles19

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 FloydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28092056The 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 739948. 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.