Louisville, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Waverly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63334. The Survey maps it on the Louisville quadrangle.

Louisville within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1890 USGS Louisiana quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1937 USGS Silex quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Silex quadrangle1:48000
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Louisville between 1993 and 2018, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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 burning	4
Natural	1

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
31 August 1993	Natural	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 April 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	176507-08213-04122018-2028
1 April 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 March 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Louisville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Galloway Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 3 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
June 2015	Flash Flood	Louisville	-	Up to 8 inches of rain fell over a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway 79 in Winfield, Routes H and BB near Davis, and Routes O and D just southeast of Olney. Over 30 water rescues of over 50 people from homes and vehicles were performed throughout the county. The worst hit areas were Winfield, Troy, Davis, Hawk Point, and Old Monroe. About 2 miles south of Winfield, Bob's Creek was flowing so high and forcefully that the floodwaters washed away areas underneath the railroad tracks.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Louisville	-	Up to three inches of rain fell onto already saturated ground causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Highways H and Z, as well as, Highway 79 at Highway JJ.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Louisville	-	Between 3 and 5 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils as the remnants of Hurricane Ike moved through the region causing flash flooding. In Silex, the Cuivre River flash flooded the whole town. Seventy-five homes and 6 businesses reported any where from minor to major flood damage. Fortunately no injuries or deaths were reported. Numrous roads throughout the county were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Hopkinsville	4.1 miles	16
Hobart	4.1 miles	16
Corso	5.0 miles	15
Millwood	7.6 miles	16
Silex	8.3 miles	16
Whiteside	8.4 miles	16
Olney	8.8 miles	16
Stillhouse Ford	9.9 miles	16

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 Louisville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985743	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 721610. 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.