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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.

Wallace within Buchanan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

6,623 words on this township

The 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.

Passage source: The 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 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.

Passage source: The 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.

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 2017

Regional 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
10 June 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation189940-01180-06102019-1825
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190308-01180-03042020-1825
4 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176391-01111-03312018-1311
29 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190307-01180-02292020-1405
9 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251192-01180-12092020-1043
24 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190305-01180-11242019-1435

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
New Market PitClayProducer
Dearborn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ferris QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Franks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spencer #1 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spencer #2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Teaney-Brumley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buchanan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWallace-Several large trees were downed between Wallace and the south side of St. Joseph.
April 2016HailWallace-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buchanan 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
Taos1.7 miles18
Halleck2.1 miles18
Mock Corner2.8 miles19
Lone Star3.4 miles18
Faucett4.0 miles18
De Kalb4.7 miles19
Willow Brook5.9 miles18
Sparta6.6 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 WallaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q10766766The 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.