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Grand Falls Plaza, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shoal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64804. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Joplin West quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Grand Falls Plaza within Newton County

Population over time

2 figures

Grand Falls Plaza fell from 114 to 103 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
2010114
2020103-11 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Grand Falls Plaza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning38
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
22 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220610-07341-08092020-1309
6 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177462-07341-08172018-1253
1 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177367-07341-08012018-0922
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177224-07341-07092018-1614
6 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 863 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 863 workings within 5 miles of Grand Falls Plaza: 863 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Kirshmann-Jeffries QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionPast Producer
Taxbox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cox and Owen Stokes LeaseZincPast Producer1915
J&M Mining Co.-Ben PutnamZincPast Producer1895
UnknownZincPast Producer1890, 1916
W. C. MineZincPast Producer1926, 1942
A. W. C. # 5 MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Alice of Old Vincennes MinesLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Shoal Creek Drive0.9 miles19
Redings Mill1.2 miles19
Cliff Village1.4 miles19
Dennis Acres1.7 miles19
Gregg1.9 miles19
Leawood2.0 miles19
Midway2.1 miles19
Sunnyvale2.3 miles19

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 Grand Falls PlazaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954594The 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 1669613. 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.