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McFry Ford, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Goebel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65606. It lies near Big Bottom Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Greer quadrangle.

McFry Ford within Oregon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of McFry Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,334 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 69 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/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Smoking4
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism12 acresMark Twain National ForestJOLIF FIRE
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestGOODWATER
1 September 2007Arson/incendiarism17 acresMark Twain National ForestSATURDAY FIRE
22 August 2012Arson/incendiarism16 acresMark Twain National ForestBUCK BAY
21 August 2012Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBRASWELL
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMark Twain National ForestSISCO
25 July 2012Arson/incendiarism65 acresMark Twain National ForestSMOKEY HOLLOW
2 July 2012Arson/incendiarism270 acresMark Twain National ForestBIG BOTTOM HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon 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 McFry Ford: 4 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burgesser MineIronProspect1907
Drew Whitten MineIronProspect1945
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronProspect
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oregon 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
Turners Mill0.9 miles14
Braswell3.9 miles13
Hollis4.2 miles13
Wilderness4.3 miles14
Ross (historical)4.5 miles14
Greer5.1 miles14
Lulu5.1 miles13
Woodside6.9 miles12

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 Q122555703The 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 750993. 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.