BlockGatewood, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Gatewood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63935. The Survey maps it on the Gatewood quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1941 USGS Gatewood quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Gatewood quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Gatewood quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Gatewood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
50 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Gatewood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,003 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 29 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 31 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | SHERMINATOR |
| 26 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177769-09147-06072018-1835 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gatewood in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Gatewood | 1 killed, $250,000 | The tornado destroyed a permanent home and a mobile home. Major damage occurred to two other permanent homes. The sole fatality occurred about midway between Gatewood and Briar, where a two-story house was destroyed. The victim was sleeping on the second floor at the time. His body was found in a field about 75 yards from the residence. Two people on the first floor of the house escaped from under the debris without injury. Two mobile homes were unroofed. Many trees were snapped or uprooted. Several trees blocked U.S. Route 160 where the tornado crossed it. Much of the tornado's path was in the Mark Twain National Forest. The average path width was 200 yards. Peak wind speeds were estimated near 140 MPH. The strongest winds and widest path extended from near Tucker to the destroyed house (midway between Briar and Gatewood). |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Gatewood | $75,000 | The tornado entered southwest Ripley County from Oregon County. A home and a barn received extensive damage in the community of Tucker, near where the tornado reached its peak intensity and width. Peak winds were estimated near 120 MPH. Average path width was 150 yards. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gatewood | $4,000 | National Forest Service personnel reported several trees were blown down. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gatewood | $3,000 | Trees were down across a road. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Gatewood | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported at a school along Highway 142. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gatewood | - | Part of a roof and porch were blown off a house between Doniphan and Gatewood. |
| April 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Gatewood | - | Multiple reports of funnel clouds were received from the Gatewood area from emergency management and law enforcement personnel. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Gatewood | - | Hail was the size of hen eggs. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Gatewood | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Gatewood | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gatewood | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Gatewood | - | no account filed |
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 Gatewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4120318 | 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 750032. 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.
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.