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Moselle, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Central Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63084. It stands on Bourbeuse River. The Survey maps it on the Moselle quadrangle.

Moselle within Franklin County

On record in Moselle

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

12 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

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Moselle between 1995 and 2017, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
13 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135249-03655-03262016-1450
10 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 February 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 November 1995Debris and open burning16 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 October 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation143395-03655-10242016-1336

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Moselle: 25 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
Evans MineLead, ZincPast Producer
B-Plant & QuarryBarium-BariteProducer
Burt ShaftBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Jeffries MineLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Northernland MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Short MineBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Pb /BaBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartle MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moselle in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindMoselle$15,000Thunderstorm winds removed the roofing of an outbuilding at an animal rescue.
April 2015HailMoselle-Large hail fell east of St. Clair, some of the hail stones were two inches in diameter, but most were an inch in diameter. The large hail caused damage to some vehicles.
December 2010Tornado (EF2)Moselle-The tornado touched down around three quarters of a mile southwest of Bruns Bridge on Mill Hill Road and four tenths of a mile east of the northern end of Ely Road, within the Meramec River valley. The tornado moved rapidly northeast at 50 mph crossing the Meramec River six times while producing extensive tree damage along its entire path to Robertsville. Large sections of trees were completely leveled within wooded areas in rural southeast Franklin County. Over two dozen structures were also damaged along the path to the southwest of Robertsville, including one house that was totally destroyed at the intersection of Eagle Ridge Road and Woods Creek Road, and another building on south Oak Drive. In Robertsville, seven homes were damaged on Hayfield Drive in the Hayfield Estates subdivision, with two sustaining significant damage. The tornado then hit the Shiloh Baptist Church causing severe damage to its west facing wall, and leveling the old church sanctuary just north of the church. The tornado then destroyed a building at the intersection of Route O and Route N as it exited town. The tornado weakened some as it moved northeast of Robertsville moving across the southeast portion of the Robertsville State Park and crossing Highway N just south of Mueller Road, about six tenths of a mile north of Catawissa. The tornado then continued northeast, crossing Solidarity Drive, which is on the Franklin/Jefferson county line, into Jefferson County.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Meramec Terrace4.1 miles19
Robertsville4.8 miles19
Parkway5.1 miles21
Saint Clair5.2 miles21
Villa Ridge6.0 miles22
Calvey (historical)6.0 miles20
Pohlman Mill6.2 miles22
Mount Hope6.2 miles20

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 MoselleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469218The 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 731621. 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.