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Myrick, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lexington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64067. The Survey maps it on the Lexington West quadrangle.

Myrick within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

37,082 words on this township

History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881; Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lexington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lexington Township - 37,082 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Myrick in 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Myrick: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal, Stone, Dimension, 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
Drivers DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walter Boles QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Craddy MineStone, Crushed/Broken, CoalPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, CoalPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, CoalPast Producer
Hulver QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lexington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Macedonia SquarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myrick in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMyrick$20,000A tree was on a vehicle near Wellington on HWY 224.
February 2017HailMyrick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Lexington1.4 miles17
Wellington5.1 miles17
Waterloo7.6 miles21
Mayview9.3 miles16
Greenton9.3 miles17
Napoleon9.4 miles21
Tabeau9.7 miles17
Page City9.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 730163. 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.