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Rhyse, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Texas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. It stands on Swanson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rhyse quadrangle.

Rhyse within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 18 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Rhyse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 965 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
18 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 August 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 July 1999Debris and open burning150 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rhyse: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper. 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 - CopperCopperPast Producer
Causey MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Causey MineIronPast Producer
Kerr MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Kerr MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Walker MineIronPast Producer
Wiggins MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhyse in 1 storm report in 2023: 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 2023Thunderstorm WindRhyse-A large and healthy tree was snapped near its base. The report was received via social media.

Every storm recorded in Dent 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
Ranger2.5 miles18
Jack3.5 miles17
Smoky Hollow3.7 miles18
Joy3.8 miles18
Hedrick4.5 miles18
Coulstone4.7 miles19
Darien6.0 miles17
Lenox7.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725242. 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.