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Grisham, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Crooked Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63751. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle.

Grisham within Bollinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Grisham between 1992 and 2018, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
18 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 July 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 July 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMARQUAND
22 November 2018Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177993-00902-11222018-1500

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Grisham: 12 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cozean MineIronPast Producer
Field BankIronOccurrence
Fox BankIronPast Producer
Gale Slinkard MineIronPast Producer
Gilmore MineIronPast Producer
Lux BankIronPast Producer
Nifong BankIronOccurrenceLimonite
Nifong BankIronPast Producer
Pavlick BankIronPast Producer
Rhodes BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grisham in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 2019Tornado (EF2)Grisham1 hurt, $60,000A National Weather Service damage survey revealed damage from an EF-2 tornado that started along County Road 844, only about a mile from the Madison County line. This tornado was spawned by the same supercell that produced a tornado inside Madison County. Due to the densely forested terrain, it could not be determined whether the Madison County track was connected to the Bollinger County track. The Bollinger County tornado formed along the headwaters of Crooked Creek in extreme western Bollinger County. The tornado then moved east across Highway 51. Several small sheds were moved or damaged along the path. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped along the path as well. A man received minor scratches on his back when the tornado demolished his single-wide mobile home on County Road 344. The mobile home was tied down, but winds rolled the mobile home frame about 25 yards. The frame of the mobile home was twisted. The tornado attained its maximum EF-2 intensity rating at the site of the mobile home. Where the tornado crossed Highway 51, two small outbuildings were moved about 20 feet, and metal was peeled off the roof of a barn. The tornado ended along County Road 342 about eight miles north-northeast of Marble Hill. Peak winds were estimated near 120 mph where the mobile home was destroyed.
February 2012Tornado (EF1)Grisham$100,000Six to eight homes sustained roof damage along Highway 72. The roof damage consisted mainly of shingle damage. Ten larger barns received roof damage over a five-mile area. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped. Numerous power poles were down. The average path width was 800 yards. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Grisham$70,000An EF-1 tornado began in Marquand in Madison County, then traveled southeast into Bollinger County near County Rd 846, causing uprooted trees and large broken branches. It crossed County Rd 844, and then went on to cause a swath of substantial tree damage (snapped and uprooted trees) near Crooked Creek. The tornado then moved in a more easterly direction south of the Hawn Creek Access area, before crossing County Rd 848. A home had part of its porch lifted up and damaged in this location along with large tree limbs broken. The tornado then caused a fairly decent swath of tree damage in some forested areas north of County Rd 846/Hwy 00. At the end of the tornado track, the roof of a barn was destroyed and the debris was tossed onto the adjacent home, causing roof damage. Estimated peak winds for the Bollinger County portion of this tornado, and the tornado as a whole, were 100 mph.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Grisham$30,000The tornado continued into Bollinger County from Madison County. Hundreds of trees were uprooted and snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph. The average path width was 200 yards.

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Bessville0.9 miles18
Loyd4.0 miles19
Shrum4.6 miles19
Hurricane5.3 miles19
Glenallen5.8 miles18
Tallent6.1 miles19
Grassy8.3 miles18
Lutesville8.4 miles19

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 Q122595595The 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 750168. 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.