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Shaw, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65202. The Survey maps it on the Millersburg quadrangle.

Shaw within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbia township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 - Columbia Township

Killed By A Falling Tree

In 1825 a little nine-year-old boy named AVilliam R. Wright, whose parents lived in this township, was killed at a point in Missouri township, on what is now known as the Hume farm. He was buried where is now a garden, on the farm of Sidne}^ Hume. The Indians had set the woods on fire and the boy, with his father and some others of the settlers, was out fighting the flames, and a burning tree fell on him and killed him instantly.

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In the county-history sources

98,879 words on this township

History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Columbia Township covers topography, fine farms, early settlers and settlements, pioneer life, the first mills, killed by a tree.

Read the chapter on Columbia Township - 98,879 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Shaw between 1992 and 2018, burning about 6 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
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177550-01420-05092018-1414
30 April 2018Debris and open burning1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177547-01420-04302018-1823
5 March 1992Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 1992Smoking2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 December 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Shaw: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaw in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindShaw-Thunderstorm winds blew over a large tree on Doziers Station Road just east of Columbia and the unincorporated community of Shaw. Numerous other tree limbs were blown down in the area.
August 2023Flash FloodShaw-Up to six inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding across portions of northern Boone County. There was between 2 and 3 feet of standing water at the intersection of Vandiver Drive and Route B (Paris Road).
May 2003Thunderstorm WindShaw-The County EOC reported the roof of a barn blown off at Highway Z and Mexico Gravel Road.

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Boonesborough (historical)2.8 miles22
Harg3.6 miles22
Switzler4.6 miles19
Murry5.0 miles18
Stephens5.1 miles19
Moores Switch5.7 miles29
Browns6.1 miles19
Lebanon (historical)6.7 miles18

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 ShawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7491133The 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 752099. 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.