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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.

Ginger Blue within McDonald County

Population over time

2 figures

Ginger 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.

YearPeople Change
201061
202037-24 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

21 since 1992

Regional 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 burning14
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 July 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 March 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Armstrong & Cravens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jeffers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
John P Hughes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joplin-Elk River Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lanagan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lewis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Madge Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Railroad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Truitt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2020HailGinger Blue$45,000Tennis 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 2025HailGinger Blue-Quarter size hail fell five miles north of South West City on Highway 43.
May 2024HailGinger Blue-Report of golf ball size hail.
March 2023Flash FloodGinger Blue-Heavy rainfall caused Route O to flood at a low water area.
May 2019Tornado (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 2011Flash FloodGinger Blue-Route TT was closed due to flooding.
May 2010FloodGinger Blue-A low water crossing on state Highway EE was flooded and closed.
June 2008HailGinger Blue-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Elk Springs0.4 miles13
Mount Shira0.5 miles13
Bosky Dell1.2 miles13
Lanagan1.5 miles13
Riverside Inn2.3 miles13
Poole Ford2.5 miles13
Noel3.2 miles13
Spring Valley3.3 miles13

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 BlueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459614The 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.