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Greenville Ford, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63935. It stands on South Prong Little Black River. The Survey maps it on the Flatwoods quadrangle.

Greenville Ford within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Greenville Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,278 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning46
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177967-09141-08012018-1455
24 July 2019Debris and open burning3.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179036-09141-07242019-1500
7 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley 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
Paterson Ford0.9 miles12
Budapest2.1 miles14
Kingbee (historical)4.5 miles12
Dryden (historical)4.5 miles12
Flatwoods4.9 miles12
Pleasant Grove5.0 miles13
Steeles5.4 miles13
Beaverdam5.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122568114The 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 740886. 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.