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Merriam Woods, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65740. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Branson quadrangle. 2,006 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Merriam Woods within Taney County

Population over time

2 figures

Merriam Woods grew from 1,761 to 2,006 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
20101,761
20202,006+245 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Merriam Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178259-10604-09262018-1503
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179441-10604-08092019-1940
5 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179440-10604-07052019-0907
4 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 June 2018Debris and open burning8.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177566-10604-06092018-0510
7 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177565-10604-06072018-0916

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taney County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Merriam Woods: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Syler LandIronPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taney 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
Rockaway Beach1.0 miles14
Long Beach1.8 miles14
Walnut Shade2.1 miles14
Bull Creek2.2 miles14
Shepherd of the Hills Estates2.7 miles14
Forsyth3.0 miles14
Edgewater Beach3.8 miles14
McFarland (historical)3.9 miles14

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 Merriam WoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1890725The 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 736250. 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.