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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.

Gads Hill within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220626-02220-08172020-1530
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177400-02220-08102018-1730
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178924-02220-06132019-1509
25 May 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178493-02220-04092019-2327

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownGranitePast Producer
Eyerman & Schmaltz QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Sheahon Bros QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionPast Producer
Gads Hill Quarry - PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Anderson BankIronOccurrence
Anderson BankIronProspect

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Tornado (EF3)Gads Hill3 killed, $4,000,000An 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.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Platow2.8 miles18
Virginia Settlement4.7 miles18
Piedmont5.8 miles18
Damon6.2 miles19
Beckville6.5 miles18
Rings8.1 miles19
Patterson8.5 miles19
Brunot9.4 miles20

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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5516438The 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.