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Grayridge, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63846. The Survey maps it on the Essex quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Grayridge within Stoddard County

Population over time

2 figures

Grayridge fell from 127 to 87 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
2010127
202087-40 (-31%)

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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Grayridge in 2018, burning about 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177834-10395-10082018-1320

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grayridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
6 ColemanSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grayridge in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2025Funnel CloudGrayridge-A tropical funnel cloud briefly occurred near Grayridge.
May 2007HailGrayridge-Occurred on U.S. Highway 60.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindGrayridge-A few trees were down on a country road.
April 2006HailGrayridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stoddard 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
Hunterville1.4 miles13
Buffington2.1 miles14
Circle City2.5 miles13
Penermon3.5 miles13
Baker3.7 miles13
Essex4.3 miles13
Birds Corner4.6 miles13
Idalia5.0 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 GrayridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459276The 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 718766. 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.