Flatwoods, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Flatwoods Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63939. The Survey maps it on the Flatwoods quadrangle.

Flatwoods within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1935 USGS Acorn quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Naylor quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Naylor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Flatwoods quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Flatwoods between 1992 and 2019, burning about 490 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
13 September 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177967-09141-08012018-1455
9 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 July 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 July 2019	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179036-09141-07242019-1500
9 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flatwoods in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 tornado, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Flatwoods	$100,000	The tornado touched down along County Road K-1. Two houses sustained moderate roof damage, including partial loss of rafters. A porch was lifted over a house, and a small boat was blown approximately 150 feet. One barn was heavily damaged. Approximately 40 large trees were snapped or uprooted. The average path width was 100 yards. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph.
December 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Flatwoods	$100,000	Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph. The average path width was approximately 100 yards. Approximately 150 to 200 trees were snapped or uprooted. One barn and one outbuilding was destroyed. Square hay bales were blown up to 50 feet, and tin from the barn was lofted into nearby trees. A house lost a section of shingles and roof decking about six feet by six feet in area. The damage was near the intersection of State Highway K and County Road K-6, about 13 miles north-northeast of Doniphan.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Flatwoods	-	Northeast of Doniphan, Route K was closed at the Little Black River due to flooding. Highway 142 east of Oxly was closed due to high water. Some secondary roads were covered by water across the county.

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dryden (historical)	2.5 miles	12
Kingbee (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Paterson Ford	4.0 miles	12
Gamburg	4.4 miles	12
Fairdealing	4.6 miles	12
Steeles	4.8 miles	13
Greenville Ford	4.9 miles	12
Pulaski	5.2 miles	11

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 Flatwoods	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28018062	The 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 740853. 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.

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.