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Readsville, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Auxvasse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65067. The Survey maps it on the Readsville quadrangle.

Readsville within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Readsville between 2017 and 2018, burning about 44 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/undetermined2

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
19 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177297-01420-01252018-1511

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Readsville: 24 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
A.V.Neal PitsFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Arthur Nichols PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Blansett PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
J.L.Davis PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Readsville in 2 storm reports in 2019: 1 tornado, 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
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Readsville-The weak tornado touched down northwest of the intersection of County Road 170 and County Road 171 destroying a small barn and causing tree damage. The tornado continued to the northeast widening to a width of 250 yards and causing more tree damage before lifting near Prairie Fork Creek. The tornado was rated EF1 with a path length of 0.56 miles and a max path width of 250 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.
August 2019Flash FloodReadsville-Four to five inches fell in a couple of hours causing flash flooding in eastern portions of the county. Several roads were flooded. Parts of Highway K were washed out near the intersection with County Road 4057. One of the washed out areas caused a two car accident 2 hours after the event ended. Two people sustained minor injuries in this accident.

Every storm recorded in Callaway 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
Garrett (historical)3.7 miles21
Yucatan3.8 miles21
Reform4.2 miles21
Heilburn (historical)5.8 miles22
Toledo5.8 miles21
Portland6.5 miles22
Williamsburg8.0 miles21
Steedman8.7 miles21

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 ReadsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16466882The 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 725142. 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.