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Millersville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63766. It stands on Caney Fork. The Survey maps it on the Millersville quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Millersville within Cape Girardeau County

On record in Millersville

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 18 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Millersville in 2019, burning under an 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/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 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179070-01624-01062019-0005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Millersville: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Zinc. 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
Unknown ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown ZincZincProspect
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millersville in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindMillersville$20,000Several trees were down along with a few power lines within the county. Trees were down along Highway Z near Burfordville and along Highway 352 near Millersville.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMillersville$10,000A tree fell on a Jeep, causing minor damage. County roads were blocked by fallen trees and power lines.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMillersville$5,000Trees were blown down.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindMillersville$1,000Roof damage occurred to a barn.
April 2020HailMillersville-Several reports of one-inch hail were received from a large storm over the Millersville and Fruitland areas.
August 2016FloodMillersville-County Road 352 was flooded along Little Whitewater Creek near Millersville. In Cape Girardeau, numerous roads were covered with several inches of water.
March 2012HailMillersville-Half dollar size hail as reported.
November 2005Flash FloodMillersville-Flooding was reported at the intersection of Highways 72 and 350.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMillersville-A flag pole was bent and large tree limbs were blown down. Missouri (MEM),July 1995
May 2004Funnel CloudMillersville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMillersville-no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodMillersville-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMillersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Reynolds Ford2.0 miles18
Hartle Ford2.8 miles18
Kurreville3.2 miles18
Burfordville4.5 miles18
Gravel Hill5.6 miles18
Brookside5.8 miles19
Oak Ridge6.0 miles24
Critesville6.0 miles18

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 MillersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859391The 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 722401. 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.