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Homestead, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fishing River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64024. It stands on Gold Mine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Excelsior Springs quadrangle. 192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Homestead within Ray County

Population over time

2 figures

Homestead grew from 185 to 192 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010185
2020192+7 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

206 words on this township

History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fishing River Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fishing River Township - 206 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Homestead between 2002 and 2018, burning about 45 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
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
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177901-08922-08082018-1512
9 July 2018Debris and open burning7.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177358-08922-07092018-1629
23 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2002Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177354-08922-04202018-1443

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Homestead: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay County Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Doc Gould MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hedges QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lawson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mays QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mclaughlin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rice QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schoaler & Bates ShaftStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ray 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
Crystal Lakes0.6 miles18
Excelsior Estates1.9 miles19
Golf Hill2.0 miles18
Wood Heights2.6 miles18
Vibbard3.1 miles19
New Garden3.3 miles18
Lawson5.2 miles19
Elkhorn6.0 miles17

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 HomesteadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2223208The 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 1681814. 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.