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Galloway, Missouri

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65804. It stands on Sequiota Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Galloway quadrangle.

Galloway within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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.

In the county-history sources

41,758 words on this township

Personal Reminiscences and Fragments of the Early History of Springfield and Greene County, Missouri : Related by Pioneers and Their Descendants at Old Settlers' Dinners Given at the Home of Capt. Martin J. Hubble, March 31, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Springfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In those days we went to Cason's Mil], where the James River bridge is now located near Galloway. The Yoakum mill was then in existence, but there was no mill at the Jones Spring at that time. Old Uncle Bennie Bashears at Beaver Gap had a corn cracker, which consisted of two little stones of about a foot or 18 inches across, and those old stones were lying about there in that neighborhood a few years ago. But neither the Fulbright nor the mill at Jones Spring had been built at that time. The Cason Mill is the oldest mill that I know of. The next mill to be built was at the Jones Spring and also the Lawson Fulbright Mill.

Passage source: Personal Reminiscences and Fragments of the Early History of Springfield and Greene County, Missouri : Related by Pioneers and Their Descendants at Old Settlers' Dinners Given at the Home of Capt. Martin J. Hubble, March 31, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, published 1914.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Springfield Township.

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Galloway between 1992 and 2017, burning about 116 acres in total. 1 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
10 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 August 1995Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 August 1999Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Galloway: 38 past producers, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Gem MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Phelps MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
UnknownLead, ZincPast Producer
UnknownLead, ZincPast Producer
Wolverine Shaft Number ThreeLead, ZincPast Producer
Ash Grove Cement Co - PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Ash Grove MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ash Grove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bennett QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Midland Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galloway in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2017Flash FloodGalloway$500,000Several homes and business sustained flood damage across Greene County. Several homes had flooded basements. This report will contain the total dollar estimate for flood damage to infrastructure, businesses, and homes across Greene County.
April 2026HailGalloway-Half dollar sized hail was reported.
April 2026HailGalloway-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2023HailGalloway-Penny sized hail was reported.
August 2018Heavy RainGalloway-A HAM Operator by the Springfield Nature Center reported a rail total of 2.50 inches.
June 2013Flash FloodGalloway-Portions of Lone Pine was impassable, including just south of Battlefield at Republic Road. Water was reported to be up to a foot deep in several businesses at Lone Pine and Republic Road.
June 2013Flash FloodGalloway-The Galloway area near Republic Road and Lone Pine had a foot of water over the roadway flooding several businesses in that area.
August 2013Flash FloodGalloway-Numerous county roads and low water crossings were flooded across the southeastern part of the county. Several farm roads including 174, 125, 243, and 170 were impassable.
September 2010Flash FloodGalloway-Eight inches of standing water was reported at the intersection of Highways 60 and 65.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Sequiota0.7 miles28
Expansion2.1 miles28
Kissick2.2 miles21
Mentor2.9 miles23
Langston3.1 miles28
Riverpark3.6 miles21
Palace (historical)4.0 miles23
Mumford4.0 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 718320. 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.