Gads Hill, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63957. It stands on Beckville Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1935 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
46 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Gads Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 449 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220626-02220-08172020-1530 |
| 10 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177400-02220-08102018-1730 |
| 5 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 June 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178924-02220-06132019-1509 |
| 25 May 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178493-02220-04092019-2327 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Gads Hill: 13 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Eyerman & Schmaltz Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Sheahon Bros Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Gads Hill Quarry - Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface | |
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Anderson Bank | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Anderson Bank | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gads Hill in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 tornado. The reports record 3 deaths. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF3) | Gads Hill | 3 killed, $4,000,000 | An EF-3 tornado touched down 4 miles northeast of Garwood in Reynolds County and proceeded northeast into northwest Wayne County southwest of Gads Hill. Thousands of trees were uprooted or snapped along its path through northwest Wayne County. Significant damage occurred in Gads Hill, where three houses and several manufactured homes and camper/trailer homes were destroyed or sustained significant damage. The estimated peak wind was 155 mph. Three people were killed when their homes were destroyed. The tornado continued to produce extensive tree damage as it progressed northeast to the Iron County line just southwest of Des Arc. The tornado passed through Iron County and into Madison County before lifting. The total path length of the tornado was 38 miles. |
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.
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 Gads Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5516438 | 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 750014. 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.












