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Coldspring, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McMurtrey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65717. It lies near Wolfpen Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Brushyknob quadrangle.

Coldspring within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Coldspring between 1992 and 2008, burning about 658 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 September 1995Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 August 2001Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Coldspring: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
E. H. Carroll Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coldspring in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindColdspring$20,000Severe straight line winds destroyed a barn located in rural northern Douglas County.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindColdspring$5,000A large tree limb was blown down on to a car on Highway C.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindColdspring$1,000A tree was down on Highway C north of Skyline.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindColdspring$1,000Several large tree limbs and a tree were reported down on Highway C east of Brushy Knob.
April 2026HailColdspring-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindColdspring-A tree was reported down on C Highway north of the Skyline School.
April 2023HailColdspring-Hail from quarters to half dollars in size was reported.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindColdspring-Numerous trees were reported down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindColdspring-Numerous trees were reported down along and east of the intersection of Highways C and 76.
July 2019Flash FloodColdspring-A car was in the water at the intersection of County Roads 125 and 134 in eastern Douglas County. The fire department responded and performed a water rescue. No injuries were reported.
April 2017Flash FloodColdspring-Highway 76 at Clever Creek was impassable due to flood water.
September 2012Heavy RainColdspring-A public report relayed by media of 3.75 inches of rainfall had fallen from overnight storms.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindColdspring-A tree was downed across Highway C from severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2018HailColdspring-no account filed
March 2017HailColdspring-no account filed
November 2001HailColdspring-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Brushyknob3.0 miles13
Denlow3.1 miles14
Champion3.5 miles13
Filer4.1 miles13
Cheney4.5 miles13
Tedrick (historical)5.2 miles14
Vera Cruz5.2 miles13
Evans5.3 miles13

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 ColdspringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984986The 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 740756. 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.