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Hollow, Missouri

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chesterfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63069. The Survey maps it on the Eureka quadrangle.

Hollow within St. Louis County

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

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hollow between 2001 and 2017, burning about 14 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 burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
29 July 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 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
19 March 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 December 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMissouri 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 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hollow: 17 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
US Silica Pacific Mine and PlantSand and Gravel, Industrial, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducerSand
Brown BankClayPast Producer
King LandClayPast Producer
Etherington Clay BankFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Glaser QuarrySilicaPast Producer
Pacific QuarrySilicaPast Producer
Pacific Underground MillSilicaProducer
Renneberg LandFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Renneberg PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
McKeever QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollow in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHollow$20,000A supercell caused a consistent swath of wind damage across southern St. Louis County. Damage included large limbs and trees downed, topped, and snapped, trees down on homes, a central air conditioning unit blown over, a metal backyard canopy lofted into another yard, and significant damage to shingles. Communities impacted include Eureka, Glencoe, Crescent, Sherman, Jedburgh, Valley Park, Peerless Park, Fenton, Concord, Mattese, Mehlville, Sappington, Affton, Lemay, and Oakville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHollow-Thunderstorm winds uprooted multiple large pine trees on the reporting party's property.
May 2019HailHollow-no account filed

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
Melrose1.8 miles28
Fox Creek1.8 miles28
Camp Wyman2.8 miles28
Wildwood3.3 miles28
Pond3.5 miles28
Allenton3.6 miles28
Grover4.2 miles28
Glencoe4.5 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756188. 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.