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Thuroy, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bayou I Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65609. It lies near Wolf Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bakersfield quadrangle.

Thuroy within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Thuroy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 422 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
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
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 September 2014Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Thuroy: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc. 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
Bean ProspectZincUnknown
Bluebird Mine & PlantZincProspect
Golman Turner PitZincPast Producer
Arnett LandIronPast Producer
Buttrom Land Number TwoIronProspect
Glazier LandIronPast Producer
Steel BankIronPast Producer
Summers MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ozark 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
Bakersfield3.4 miles13
Udall4.0 miles13
Udall Landing5.3 miles13
Sharp6.6 miles13
Howards Ridge7.0 miles13
Tecumseh7.2 miles13
Prestonia7.8 miles13
Elijah7.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 733851. 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.