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Grover, Missouri

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wildhorse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63040. The Survey maps it on the Eureka quadrangle.

Grover within St. Louis County

On record in Grover

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

9 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Grover between 2013 and 2014, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning8
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
6 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 January 2013Debris 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

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Grover: 22 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Brown BankClayPast Producer
Etherington Clay BankFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
King LandClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Babler State Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grover in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGrover$15,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees on the reporting party's property and caused large tree branches to snap. These tree branches appeared to have fallen on a second story deck causing it to collapse. A large tree also fell on the home's roof causing its brick chimney to crumble.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGrover-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines near the intersection of Highway 109 and Clayton Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGrover-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs as well as a tree which fell onto Highway 100 just east of Wildwood. Several power poles were broken.
April 1994HailGrover-Numerous reports were received of 0.75 to 1-inch-diameter hail from the public and weather spotters. Hail up to three inches in diameter fell over other sections of western St. Louis County damaging hundreds of cars and windows. The worst damage was near Chesterfield Mall where parked cars were dented severely or had broken windows. Hail stones of two to three inches fell for an estimated 10 minutes causing nearly a million dollars in damage.

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
Pond1.0 miles28
Wildwood1.4 miles28
Glencoe2.3 miles29
Yeatman2.6 miles29
Fox Creek2.8 miles28
Ellisville2.9 miles29
Sherman3.6 miles29
Clarkson Valley3.9 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756135. 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.