BlockLoyd, 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 63655. It stands on Summers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 19 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.
- 1933 USGS Marquand quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Marquand quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2000 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Loyd between 1995 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179389-02359-09292019-1930 |
| 5 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 June 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179388-02359-06212019-2240 |
| 18 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | WHITENER CREEK |
| 26 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | MARQUAND |
| 21 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | WASH CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Loyd: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozean Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Fox Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Gale Slinkard Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Gilmore Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Lux Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Nifong Bank | Iron | Occurrence | Limonite | |
| Nifong Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Pavlick Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Rhodes Prospect | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Richards Mine | 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.
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 Q14704429 | 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 740422. 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.