Eldridge, Missouri

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.

• 1933 USGS Stoutland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1938 USGS Stoutland quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1976 USGS Eldridge East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Eldridge between 1992 and 2017, burning about 13,091 acres in total. None started naturally. 77 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Case
• Prosperine
• Smith Ford (historical)
• Sweet Hollow Ford (historical)
• Tom Hollow Ford (historical)
• Gilbertson Ford (historical)

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Eldridge: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Laclede County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldridge in 41 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 18 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Laclede County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 717440. 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.