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Ladue, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63124. It stands on Fordyce Fork. The Survey maps it on the Creve Coeur quadrangle.

Ladue within St. Louis County

On record in Ladue

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ladue between 2007 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Ladue: 30 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Perlite. 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
St Louis Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Evans and Howard Mine Number FiveClayPast Producer
Highlands Mine Number FourClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Gilker Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Jamieson MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Jones MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Mathieson and Hegeler MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladue in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLadue1 hurtThunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. One tree in Ladue fell onto an unoccupied car destroying it. In Pagedale, a large tree fell onto a house causing moderate damage. Also, one occupant sustained minor injuries.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLadue$30,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs in Ladue. In Warson Woods, a large tree was blown down onto a local road blocking it. In Kirkwood, a large tree was blown down on Sugar Creek Ridge Drive knocking down powerlines and poles.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLadue-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLadue-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLadue-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
Olivette1.1 miles22
Frontenac2.1 miles22
Creve Coeur2.4 miles22
Brentwood2.8 miles23
Huntleigh2.8 miles22
Rock Hill2.9 miles22
Warson Woods2.9 miles22
Clayton3.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756268. 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.