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Pettys Hill, Missouri

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Queeny Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63088. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Pettys Hill within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pettys Hill between 2003 and 2014, burning about 32 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2003Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 March 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot 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 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pettys Hill: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bussen Antire Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kempf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osage Hills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettys Hill in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025FloodPettys Hill$200,000Heavy rain across St. Louis County and upstream caused the Meramec River at Valley Park to rise into major flood. Floodwaters seeped onto Missouri Route 141, closing the road at its intersection with I-44 for 2 days (April 8 - 10) while the river crested and began to retreat. Multiple cars became stuck in the floodwater, but no injuries were reported.
May 2023HailPettys Hill-Another severe storm moved through the southern portions of St. Louis County. There were numerous reports of large hail. The hail was reported in Twin Oaks, Peerless Park, Valley Park, and Kirkwood.

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
Peerless Park0.6 miles22
Valley Park0.7 miles22
Ranken1.0 miles29
Twin Oaks1.2 miles22
Fern Glen1.4 miles29
Morschels1.7 miles29
Lincoln Beach1.8 miles29
Mountain Ridge1.9 miles29

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.

Wikidata item Q122560953The 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 756524. 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.