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.
Population over time
2 figuresGrayridge 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 127 | |
| 2020 | 87 | -40 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1934 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Essex quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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 use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 October 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177834-10395-10082018-1320 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Coleman | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Grayridge | - | A tropical funnel cloud briefly occurred near Grayridge. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Grayridge | - | Occurred on U.S. Highway 60. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grayridge | - | A few trees were down on a country road. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Grayridge | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunterville | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Buffington | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Circle City | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Penermon | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Baker | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Essex | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Birds Corner | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Idalia | 5.0 miles | 13 |
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 Grayridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459276 | The 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.






