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Cliff Cave, Missouri

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Oakville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63129. The Survey maps it on the Oakville quadrangle.

Cliff Cave within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cliff Cave between 2005 and 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 February 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 February 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cliff Cave: 6 past producers. None of them 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
Lemay QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cliff Cave in 16 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2020LightningCliff Cave$50,000Lightning struck a house near the intersection of Christopher Drive and Schnell Drive, causing a house fire. The fire began in the garage and a car parked in the garage was destroyed as well. Two people were in the home, but escaped unharmed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCliff Cave-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in the area.
March 2024HailCliff Cave-Another two rounds of large hail up to an inch in diameter fell across far southern portions of St. Louis County between Widman County Park and Cliff Cave County Park.
April 2017FloodCliff Cave-The Meramec River at Eureka and Valley Park rose to just above major flood stage in the late evening hours of April 30th due to the heavy rainfall. A number of roads were closed due to the river flooding including Highway 141 where it goes under I-44.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindCliff Cave-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree partially blocking Christopher Drive. Also, a carport was blown over and a large pine tree was uprooted.
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
March 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
April 2025HailCliff Cave-no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCliff Cave-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Oakville1.1 miles28
Koch (historical)1.4 miles28
Jefferson Barracks2.9 miles23
White House3.6 miles28
Mattese3.6 miles28
Mehlville3.7 miles23
Ivory4.5 miles23
Lemay5.0 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122550451The 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 755902. 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.