Wallace, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crawford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64439. The Survey maps it on the Dearborn quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1927 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,623 words on this townshipThe History of Buchanan County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War, General and Local Statisics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc, published 1881; History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904 names this settlement in its chapter on Crawford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Watson was married to Miss Lizzie Taylor, a native of Fleming County, Kentucky. She was born October 21, 1842. They have had seven children - Mary B., born July 23, 1861, died March 11, 1865 ; William A., born October 20, 1863, died January 19, 1880; Henry B., born October 29, 1865 ; Warren C, born January 8, 1868, died September 20, 1870; James, born September 20, 1869; -Rosa L., born August 6, 1874, and one child that died in infancy.
History has preserved the names of the following- early settlers of Crawford township, the second of the southern tier west of Platte : William Fowler, Delaware, 1837; William Harrington, 1837; Caleb Bailey, 1837; William Guinn and William Lockhart, Illinois, 1837; Bartlett Curl, Kentucky, 1837; James B. O'Toole, Illinois, 1837; Harvey Jones. North Carolina. 1837; O. M. Spencer, father of Judge Spencer, Kentucky, 1837; James Curl, William Payne, Guian Brown, Turpin Thomas, Matt I-'erril, 1837; Thomas A. Brown, late judge of the County Court, Tennessee, 1838; H. W. Baker, Virginia. 1837; John Hickman, St. Louis, 1837; Levi Judah, Indiana, 1837; Columbus Roundtree, Kentucky, 1837; Dr. Silas McDonald, first physician in the county, Kentucky, 1838; j\Iaj. Sandford r eland, Kentucky, 1839; Guilford Moultrie, 1839; Nathan Turner, 1839.
Passage source: History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904.
farmer, section i28, postoffice Wallace, is a native of Kentucky, and was born January ,2, 1827. He_wras reared upon a farm, and received a good common English education. He emigrated to Missouri in 1848, locat-. ing in Platte County, where he engaged in farming ; came to Buchanan County in 1865. He was married in January, 1852, to Miss Amanda Miller, also a native of Kentucky. She was born June 14, 1834. They have had eleven children, John, MoUie, Eliza, Emma, Kate, Lou, James, Effie, Agnes, Myra, and Hattie. The two oldest are dead. Mr. B. served in the Confederate army for four years in Company I, First Missouri Cavalry. He was wounded in the head slightly at Blakely, Alabama, and was taken prisoner at Vicksburg and Blakely, but was paroled and exchanged. He is a Mason and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. He has seventy-seven acres of land which was given him by his father-in-law. It is all under fence, in a good state of cultivation, with a good house and barn and a fine orchard.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Crawford Township - it names this place 18 more 18 times.
Fires near this place
7 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wallace between 2017 and 2020, burning about 42 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 189940-01180-06102019-1825 |
| 4 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190308-01180-03042020-1825 |
| 4 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 31 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176391-01111-03312018-1311 |
| 29 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190307-01180-02292020-1405 |
| 9 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 251192-01180-12092020-1043 |
| 24 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190305-01180-11242019-1435 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Wallace: 20 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Market Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Dearborn Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ferris Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Franks Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Spencer #1 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Spencer #2 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Teaney-Brumley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | - | Several large trees were downed between Wallace and the south side of St. Joseph. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taos | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Halleck | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Mock Corner | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Lone Star | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Faucett | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| De Kalb | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Willow Brook | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Sparta | 6.6 miles | 18 |
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 Wallace | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q10766766 | The 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 728275. 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.







