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Roy, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Campbell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65608. It lies near Hedrick Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Goodhope quadrangle.

Roy within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Roy between 1992 and 2018, burning about 571 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning28
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1995Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1994Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 April 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roy: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, 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
Roberts DiggingsZinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roy in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRoy$10,000One hundred feet of roofing was blown off of a home.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRoy$1,000Report of a tree on the road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRoy-Several trees were blown down on DD Highway south of Goodhope close to Plainview School.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Roy-A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado touched down along Highway AJ approximately one half of a mile east of Highway 76. The tornado lifted near the intersection of Highway 76 and County Road 508. Damage from the tornado was limited to numerous trees.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindRoy-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees across Highway 76 west of Highway AJ.
September 2007HailRoy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Goodhope1.3 miles12
Jackson Mill1.7 miles12
Red Bank3.3 miles12
Merritt3.5 miles12
Rome3.7 miles13
Cross Roads3.8 miles13
Old Merritt4.5 miles13
Arno4.5 miles13

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 RoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985019The 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 725641. 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.