Ginger Blue, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pineville Lanagan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64854. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Noel quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 843 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGinger Blue fell from 61 to 37 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 37 | -24 (-39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1940 USGS Noel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Noel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Noel quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Neosho quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Ginger Blue between 1992 and 2014, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 July 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Ginger Blue: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong & Cravens Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Jeffers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| John P Hughes Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Joplin-Elk River Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lanagan Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lewis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Madge Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mill Creek Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Railroad Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Truitt Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ginger Blue in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Hail | Ginger Blue | $45,000 | Tennis ball size hail was reported by the Tiff City Fire Department on Highway O just east of the Oklahoma state line. Six vehicles and a business roof suffered hail damage. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Ginger Blue | - | Quarter size hail fell five miles north of South West City on Highway 43. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Ginger Blue | - | Report of golf ball size hail. |
| March 2023 | Flash Flood | Ginger Blue | - | Heavy rainfall caused Route O to flood at a low water area. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Ginger Blue | - | A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 94 mph downed trees as it moved into McDonald County, Missouri from Delaware County, Oklahoma. The tornado originally touched down near Jay, Oklahoma and tracked more than 16 and a half miles, before uprooting trees as it crossed into Missouri and lifted a tenth of a mile into McDonald County, just east of the intersection of South 700 Road and County Road SW4355. No structural damage was noted in Missouri. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Ginger Blue | - | Route TT was closed due to flooding. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Ginger Blue | - | A low water crossing on state Highway EE was flooded and closed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ginger Blue | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Springs | 0.4 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Shira | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bosky Dell | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lanagan | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Riverside Inn | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Poole Ford | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Noel | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Spring Valley | 3.3 miles | 13 |
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 Ginger Blue | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459614 | 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 718466. 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.






