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New Grove, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gasconade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65746. It stands on Bowman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield NW quadrangle.

New Grove within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of New Grove between 1994 and 2011, burning about 125 acres in total. 1 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
11 September 2000Debris and open burning22 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2011Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 March 2011Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 2011Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of New Grove: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. 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
Prock DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown-LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown-LeadLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wright 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
Midway2.3 miles12
Odin2.9 miles12
Duncan3.0 miles12
Antrim3.9 miles12
Jerico4.9 miles12
Umpire5.4 miles12
Rembert (historical)6.1 miles12
Boyer7.7 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 Q122596419The 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 741098. 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.