Greenville, 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.

• 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1936 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1971 USGS Holt quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Holt quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Washington township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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.

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:

• Claysville
• Crescent Lake
• Excelsior Springs
• Kearney
• Holt
• Mosby

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Greenville: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Clay County

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 740885. 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.