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Billingsville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Boonville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65233. It stands on Stephens Branch. The Survey maps it on the Billingsville quadrangle.

Billingsville within Cooper 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

4,051 words on this township

A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Boonville Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Boonville Township - 4,051 words.

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Billingsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190052-02732-09032019-1200
29 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190053-02732-09162019-1015
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190051-02732-08292019-1520
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190049-02732-08022019-1115
15 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190050-02732-08152019-2020
12 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Billingsville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Booneville Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Billingsville in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBillingsville-Downed wires and power outages near Billingsville Road south of Boonville.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBillingsville-Scattered tree damage was reported in various locations near Boonville.
June 2015Flash FloodBillingsville-Several roads were under water across Cooper County.
May 2013Flash FloodBillingsville-Water was reported across the intersection of Highway 87 and Highway Y.
June 2007FloodBillingsville-The Petite Saline Creek near Boonville crested at 19.44 feet, or 3.44 feet above flood stage.

Every storm recorded in Cooper 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
Speed3.8 miles18
Lamine5.2 miles18
Bellair5.5 miles18
Chouteau Springs5.5 miles17
Boonville5.6 miles18
Windsor Place5.7 miles18
Lone Elm6.2 miles17
Pilot Grove6.5 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 BillingsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984641The 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 740678. 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.