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Marys Home, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Jim Henry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65032. The Survey maps it on the Saint Elizabeth quadrangle.

Marys Home within Miller County

On record in Marys Home

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Marys Home between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,794 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
7 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2018Natural760 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176513-80001-04152018-1530
7 March 2018Arson/incendiarism727 acresMissouri Department of Conservation165988-80001-03072018-1200
7 March 2018Arson/incendiarism50 acresMissouri Department of Conservation165987-80001-03072018-1200
7 March 2018Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation165976-80001-03072018-1200
7 March 2018Arson/incendiarism38 acresMissouri Department of Conservation165986-80001-03072018-1200
6 March 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 March 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Marys Home: 32 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Hockney DiggingsCoal, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Fowler MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Fox DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Hoff DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Indian Grave DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Jones MineLeadPast Producer
Mcmillan ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer
Benco QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Groose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marys Home in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
April 2026HailMarys Home$750,000Golf ball size hail was reported damaging at least 20 vehicles and breaking out windows. Roof damage to a home and business occurred.
December 2015Flash FloodMarys Home$500,000Highway 17 was closed near Saline Creek. Nearly all low water crossings were flooded. Several rural roads suffered flood damage. There were several homes and properties that sustained flood water damage. This storm report will contain the damage estimates for the entire county for this event.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMarys Home$15,000no account filed
February 2011Thunderstorm WindMarys Home$5,000Law enforcement reported power polls and lines down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMarys Home$1,000There was minor damage to a metal sign and outbuilding. A picture of this damage on was social media.
May 2024HailMarys Home-Report of quarter size hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMarys Home-There was a tree blown down on a road near Saline Valley.
May 2011Flash FloodMarys Home-Highway M near the Saline Valley Conservation Area was flooded and impassable.
May 2011Flash FloodMarys Home-Highway H was flooded and impassable.
May 2011HailMarys Home-The public reported mostly dime size with a few nickel sized hail stones.
May 2011HailMarys Home-The public reported quarter sized hail at Our Lady of Show Church.
April 2003HailMarys Home-no account filed
May 1998HailMarys Home-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Hoecker3.9 miles19
Capps4.7 miles19
Saint Elizabeth5.8 miles19
Spring Garden6.6 miles19
Tuscumbia7.4 miles19
Etterville7.4 miles19
Mount Pleasant9.9 miles23
Pleasant Mount10.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Marys HomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20658020The 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 729551. 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.