Gratiot, Missouri

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.

• 1933 USGS Jefferson Barracks quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Jefferson Barracks quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Webster Groves quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1993 USGS Webster Groves quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Webster Groves quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861, published 1861; Saint Louis : the Future Great City of the World : with Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men and Women of St. Louis and Missouri, published 1876; Child's Geography and History of St. Louis City, published 1886; Road and Hand-book of the Missouri Division, Including Road-maps of the Riding Districts of St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Sedalia, Springfield, Warrensburg, Etc, published 1895 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gratiot between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cheltenham
• Clayton-Tamm
• Forest Park Southeast
• Kings Oak
• Midtown
• Rock Springs

Every fire recorded in St. Louis city

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 105 workings within 5 miles of Gratiot: 101 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 765686. 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.