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Hadley, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Webb Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63957. It lies near South Fork Greenwood Valley. The Survey maps it on the Ellington SE quadrangle.

Hadley within Reynolds County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Hadley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177379-09010-08062018-1240
4 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestTWIN POND ROAD
8 April 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Smoking4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reynolds County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hadley: 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foster ProspectManganeseProspect
Unknown ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Armstrong MineIronPast Producer
Owner UnknownIronPast Producer1904
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Reynolds County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hadley in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Tornado (EF2)Hadley$250,000At approximately 10:20 PM a tornado began near Missouri Highway HH in the Clearwater Conservation Area to the northeast of Garwood, MO in Reynolds County where it caused tree damage and collapsed the roof of a shed. From there the tornado continued northeast and passed over Clearwater Lake where it destroyed multiple outbuildings on and near the water. Further northeast on County Road 468, the tornado damaged more trees before exiting into Wayne County. In Reynolds County the tornado was rated EF-2 with a path length of 9.99 miles and a maximum path width of 1525 yards.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHadley-Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees on Highway 34 at the Reynolds-Wayne County line.

Every storm recorded in Reynolds 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
Garwood4.2 miles17
Helvey (historical)5.3 miles18
Webb (historical)6.0 miles18
Ruble7.4 miles18
Grady9.0 miles18
Oakley9.8 miles18
Riverside (historical)11.5 miles18
Chitwood12.5 miles18

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 HadleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28006096The 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 750186. 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.