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Boydsville, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Round Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65251. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Guthrie quadrangle.

Boydsville within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Boydsville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 19 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176470-01419-03042018-1414
4 March 2005Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 March 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 March 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 February 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Boydsville: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Callaway Rock Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boydsville in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2024HailBoydsville-Widespread large hail up to golf ball size over western portions of Callaway County and into Fulton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBoydsville-Thunderstorm winds caused moderate damage to a roof of a house on Shelly Drive near intersection with County Road 334.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBoydsville-As a line of thunderstorms moved across Callaway County, thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and power lines across the county.
April 2012Flash FloodBoydsville-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway F at the intersection with County Road 341 and Highway PP about a mile north of Highway 94.
April 2010Flash FloodBoydsville-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway C near South Callaway High School. Also, U.S. Highway 54 had water over it in spots.
May 2011HailBoydsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callaway 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
Carrington2.7 miles21
Millers3.0 miles23
Guthrie4.1 miles21
Millersburg5.8 miles21
Folsom6.1 miles24
Ellerslie (historical)6.6 miles22
New Bloomfield6.7 miles22
Earl8.4 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 748983. 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.