Wood, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64469. The Survey maps it on the Wood quadrangle.

Wood within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1923 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
1925 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Wood quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wood between 2005 and 2018, burning about 740 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	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
5 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	5.4 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177472-03220-08052018-1516
4 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	700 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	KING CITY
30 April 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	28 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177470-03220-04302018-2324
24 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.6 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177468-03220-04242018-1949
3 February 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	176026-03220-02032018-1528

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Wood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Orchid	4.0 miles	17
Winslow	4.1 miles	12
Amity	5.7 miles	15
Oak	5.7 miles	17
Fairport	6.2 miles	15
Maysville	6.5 miles	15
Union Star	7.7 miles	17
Boxford (historical)	10.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739620. 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.