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Ravanna, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Ravanna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64673. The Survey maps it on the Ravanna quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Ravanna within Mercer County

Population over time

2 figures

Ravanna fell from 98 to 60 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201098
202060-38 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ravanna between 1997 and 2018, burning about 281 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1

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
17 April 2018Debris and open burning68 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177455-02319-04172018-1456
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined114 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177454-02319-04172018-2327
17 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation125913-02319-04172015-1151
29 March 1997Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 March 1997Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177279-02319-03122018-1540
28 February 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Ravanna: 17 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marion Twp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mercer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ravanna Twp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ravanna in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRavanna-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph in the community of Ravanna.
May 2024HailRavanna-Two inch sized hail was reported in Ravanna.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindRavanna-Broadcast media estimated 70 mph winds near Princeton.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRavanna-Numerous tree limbs down.
September 2000HailRavanna-Dime to golfball size hail was reported in multiple locations between Ravanna and Half Rock.
September 2005HailRavanna-no account filed
September 2005HailRavanna-no account filed
October 2000HailRavanna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Mercer5.3 miles7
Ilia (historical)5.3 miles7
Alvord (historical)6.9 miles10
Topsy7.1 miles7
Princeton7.1 miles10
Cleopatra7.2 miles7
South Lineville9.1 miles7
Wataga11.5 miles7

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 RavannaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472072The 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 735816. 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.