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Gipsy, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63787. It stands on Lick Log Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gipsy quadrangle. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Gipsy within Bollinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Gipsy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179092-11115-09112019-1700
11 September 1993Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 1992Arson/incendiarism10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 May 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gipsy: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Howell LandIronPast Producer
Lemon LandIronPast Producer
Reed BankIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gipsy in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
October 2021Tornado (EF1)Gipsy$400,000The tornado crossed into Bollinger County from Wayne County. The tornado directly affected the community of Zalma, where the school gymnasium roof was damaged. Air conditioning units were blown off the school roof. The top half of a two-story barn was destroyed. There was roof damage to a chicken house. Otherwise, the majority of the path was through densely wooded farm country, where numerous trees were uprooted or snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 105 mph.
December 2013Flash FloodGipsy$50,000A water rescue was conducted by the fire department on Highway P and TT near the border of Wayne County. Flash flooding of Crooked Creek surrounded a restaurant in Marble Hill. Parts of Highways H, P, and W were closed.
August 2011HailGipsy-Hail up to the size of half-dollars occurred on Highway TT.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindGipsy-Trees were down across Highway E.

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Buchanan4.5 miles20
Zalma5.5 miles20
Arab6.6 miles19
Hahn7.1 miles20
Grassy8.4 miles18
Greenbrier8.5 miles19
Sank9.0 miles20
Huxie10.3 miles18

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 GipsyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477903The 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 718467. 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.