Lively, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65326. It stands on Knobby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Knobby quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1935 USGS Knobby Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Knobby quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Harry S Truman Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Knobby quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Union township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Noted Criminal Trials
In 1840, Wm. Grizzle was tried on a change of venue from Pulaski County. He was indicted and found guilty of murder in the first degree and Sheriff Smith erected a scaffold for his execution in the hollow, between the hills, a short distance south of Mr. E. S. Drake's house. A large concourse of people gathered to witness the execution, and the prisoner was on the scaffold, when a commutation by the Grovernor to imprisonment in the Penitentiary was produced.
In the county-history sources
15,139 words on this townshipA Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Union Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Union Township - 15,139 words.
Fires near this place
138 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Lively between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,820 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 73 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 129640-00806-09062015-1743 |
| 16 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179287-00805-09162019-1315 |
| 7 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 248 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179329-00805-06082019-2115 |
| 11 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 140751-01503-06112016-1651 |
| 6 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 129030-00805-05062015-1705 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lively: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Creek Mines | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Gun Bank | Iron | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walkers Corner | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hastain | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Knobby | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Lakeview Heights | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Zora | 5.3 miles | 20 | |
| Edwards | 6.0 miles | 20 | |
| Majorville | 8.8 miles | 23 | |
| Edmonson | 9.2 miles | 21 |
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 Lively | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6658165 | The 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 721365. 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.










