Grays Point, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Red Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65707. The Survey maps it on the Rescue quadrangle.

Grays Point within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1888 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000
1921 USGS Stotts City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rescue quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Grays Point between 1998 and 1999, burning about 13 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
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2

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
12 April 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 April 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 March 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 November 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 November 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Grays Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
	Unknown - Lead & Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Red Oak	2.2 miles	18
Rescue	3.8 miles	17
Round Grove	4.1 miles	15
Plew	4.8 miles	18
Phelps	5.6 miles	17
Miller	7.6 miles	17
Olinger	7.7 miles	15
Bowers Mill	7.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739990. 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.