Gaines Ford, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 65401. It stands on Gaines Ford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nagogami Lodge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Gaines Ford within Maries County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1937 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:48000
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Nagogami Lodge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Gaines Ford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 June 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 May 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	178629-08102-04072018-1448
14 April 1995	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 April 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 1992	Natural	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	261373-08102-03082020-1010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maries County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gaines Ford (historical): 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Fe	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Maries 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
Stickney	2.3 miles	17
Davis Ford	3.7 miles	17
Hayden	4.6 miles	17
Johnson Ford (historical)	5.0 miles	17
James Brothers	6.8 miles	17
Big Bend	7.4 miles	20
Vichy	7.9 miles	17
Henderson Ford (historical)	8.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740863. 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.