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Providence, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Rock Bridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65203. It stands on Perche Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

Providence within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Providence between 1994 and 2018, burning about 115 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 burning2
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
7 February 1994Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 February 1994Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177701-06843-01312018-1315

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Providence: 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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
Honey MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Mcdonald MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Ramon MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Tiff MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Haffner Quarries # 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lupus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lupus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Flash FloodProvidence-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over the far southern portions of Boone County causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Main Street in Hartsburg.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindProvidence-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines in Boone County. Some of the worst tree damage was in southern Boone County near the intersection of Old Plank Road South and Dothage Road. In Columbia, a large tree limb fell and knocked down power lines onto an unoccupied car. The car sustained moderate damage to the hood. Further east, several large tree limbs and a couple of trees were blown down. One large tree blocked a gravel road next to Lake LaVista.

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Nashville (historical)1.3 miles20
Easley2.9 miles20
Sapp3.0 miles21
McBaine4.0 miles22
Pierpont5.1 miles21
Turner5.5 miles22
Huntsdale6.2 miles22
Eureka (historical)7.4 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 ProvidenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26794850The 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 741175. 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.