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Bible Grove, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63531. It stands on Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bible Grove quadrangle.

Bible Grove within Scotland County

On record in Bible Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bible Grove between 2002 and 2020, burning about 206 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190455-09822-09052019-0400
23 March 2002Debris and open burning180 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 March 2002Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 October 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230917-05205-10122020-1535

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotland 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 Bible Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Greensburg Quarry - PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Scotland County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bible Grove in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBible Grove$40,000Trees down
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBible Grove$1,000telephone poles down at residence
August 2023Flash FloodBible Grove-Law Enforcement report that Route T near Bible Grove was washed out.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBible Grove-The Sheriff's Office reported that several trees were down on roadways in Bible Grove.
May 2019HailBible Grove-The hail was spiked.
June 2015HailBible Grove-Quarter size hail was reported along with a report of nearby creek out of its banks.
June 2015Flash FloodBible Grove-Three roads was reported closed northeast of Bible Grove, including County D, County Road MM, and the Canal Bridge.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBible Grove-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some 2 to 3 inch diameter tree branches about 5 miles south of Crawford, MO around 825 pm June 5.
May 2009HailBible Grove-Hail the size of a quarter fell about 10 miles southwest of Memphis, MO around 630 pm on May 13. It lasted for 3 to 4 minutes. Time estimated.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBible Grove-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some tree branches about 3 miles northeast of Bible Grove, MO around 715 pm June 23. The branches fell onto some power lines and caught on fire.
April 2016HailBible Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotland 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
Unity3.7 miles9
Energy4.2 miles9
Pleasant Retreat4.7 miles9
Edinburg6.5 miles9
Middle Fabius7.1 miles9
Crawford8.6 miles9
Sand Hill9.8 miles9
Memphis10.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 714123. 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.