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River Bend, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Blue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64058. It lies near Liberty Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 3 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

River Bend within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

River Bend fell from 10 to 3 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
201010
20203-7 (-70%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

6,365 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Blue Township covers organized may 23, 1827, at first it included land in what is cass and bates counties, present boundaries and phyiscal features, blue township a favored locality, names of the pioneers, what the pioneers themselves say of early days.

Read the chapter on Blue Township - 6,365 words.

Fires near this place

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of River Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177819-02412-08122018-1657
1 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179267-02412-07012019-2142
8 April 2020Debris and open burning4.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190395-04828-04082020-1735
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190428-04828-04112020-2045
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176031-04834-03072018-1713

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of River Bend: 33 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Liberty Bend Pit & PlantSilicaProducer
Santa Fe QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City Wide SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alrok Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alrok QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Atwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blue Valley Riprap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Courtney1.6 miles24
Eton2.6 miles24
Cement City2.6 miles24
Cobbler3.7 miles24
Atherton4.8 miles24
Ripley5.3 miles24
Blue Mills5.3 miles24
Sugar Creek5.5 miles26

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 River BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2754139The 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 1699794. 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.