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Glidewell, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Robberson No. 2 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65803. It stands on South Dry Sac River. The Survey maps it on the Ebenezer quadrangle.

Glidewell within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

66 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Glidewell between 1993 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230727-03905-09272020-1350
12 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230669-03905-09122020-1710
10 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Glidewell: 13 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Conco QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Doling Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Edwards QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graystone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Holman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tindell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

9 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glidewell in 9 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindGlidewell$2,000A tree was downed and knocked over powerlines north of Springfield.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGlidewell$2,000Several power lines were knocked down.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindGlidewell$2,000Small outbuildings were blown down and winds were estimated up to 70 mph.
May 2025Flash FloodGlidewell-MO-13 northbound was closed, and southbound suffered delays due to flooding.
August 2024Heavy RainGlidewell-The Mesonet station NWTM7 located at the Water Treatment Plant in northwest Springfield measured 2.45 inches of storm total rainfall.
June 2024Flash FloodGlidewell-Farm road 129 had water over the roadway due to flooding.
September 2018Heavy RainGlidewell-The Mesonet station NWTM7, reported a 24 rain total of 3.67 inches.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGlidewell-Several large tree limbs were blown down around Farm Road 66 and Farm Road 125 in the vicinity of Highway H.
June 2017HailGlidewell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Pleasant Valley2.5 miles20
Ebenezer2.7 miles20
Mascot3.3 miles20
Avalon Park3.7 miles20
Ritter4.1 miles21
Roseville4.3 miles20
Hackney4.6 miles21
Valley Water Mills5.0 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.

Wikipedia article on GlidewellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28231837The 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 718529. 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.