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Redings Mill, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shoal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64804. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Joplin West quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Redings Mill within Newton County

Population over time

2 figures

Redings Mill grew from 151 to 164 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
2010151
2020164+13 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Redings Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning46
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
22 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220610-07341-08092020-1309
6 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177462-07341-08172018-1253
1 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177367-07341-08012018-0922
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177224-07341-07092018-1614

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 681 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 681 workings within 5 miles of Redings Mill: 681 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
Kirshmann-Jeffries QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionPast Producer
Cox and Owen Stokes LeaseZincPast Producer1915
J&M Mining Co.-Ben PutnamZincPast Producer1895
White Oak MineZincPast Producer
Taxbox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alpha MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Anna MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

51 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redings Mill in 51 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 27 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2001Tornado (F1)Redings Mill1 hurt, $2,000,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill1 hurt, $20,000A large tree was blown down on to a house in south Joplin. A female was injured as the tree fell on her.
July 2024Flash FloodRedings Mill$18,000Report from dispatch of a stranded vehicle near St. Johns Blvd and 32nd street.
May 2019HailRedings Mill$15,000Golf ball sized hail was reported at the 5 mile marker on I-44 in south Joplin. Only minor roof and tree damage occurred.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill$5,000Report of several uprooted trees and snapped branches.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill$5,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill$3,000no account filed
May 2011Tornado (EF2)Redings Mill$2,000This is the beginning of the EF-5 tornado that impacted a large portion of the city of Joplin. ||This tornado started in the very extreme northern portions of Newton County initially touching down one half mile southwest of the intersection of JJ Highway and Newton Road in Newton County. Several large trees were toppled before the tornado crossed into Jasper County and portions of south Joplin.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill$1,000Report of a large tree toppled over.
April 2025HailRedings Mill-Quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2025Heavy RainRedings Mill-A rainfall amount of 1.4 inches fell in one hour near Cliff Village.
June 2025Heavy RainRedings Mill-A one hour rainfall total of 1.65inches was measured in Cliff Village.
April 2021HailRedings Mill-Quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2021Flash FloodRedings Mill-Highway 86 at Shoal Creek was flooded and impassable.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-Numerous large trees were reported down. River Side Drive had several trees blocking traffic.
March 2020HailRedings Mill-Quarter size hail was reported.
March 2020HailRedings Mill-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-Several large, six inch diameter limbs were reported down.
May 2019HailRedings Mill-Half-dollar sized hail was reported at Coyote Road.
October 2019HailRedings Mill-A report of quarter sized hail was received from MPing.
May 2019FloodRedings Mill-Shoal Creek was flowing out of its banks and over the River Road in southern Joplin.
March 2016HailRedings Mill-Amateur Radio reported penny sized hail on the south side of Joplin.
December 2015FloodRedings Mill-Several mobile homes were washed away by flooding along Shoal Creek near Reddings Mill. There were an unknown amount of people stranded in that area and multiple high water rescues were conducted.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-Wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
March 2010Flash FloodRedings Mill-River Road was closed due to flooding.
May 2010FloodRedings Mill-Excessive rainfall caused a section of Jackson Street to flood making it impassable to motorists.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-Several large tree limbs were reported down and blocking the west bound lane of Gumm Road near Redings Mill.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-The public estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
March 2013HailRedings Mill-no account filed
March 2011HailRedings Mill-no account filed
June 2010HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2009HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2009HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2009HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2008HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2008HailRedings Mill-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-no account filed
October 2007Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2006HailRedings Mill-no account filed
February 2005HailRedings Mill-no account filed
June 2005Tornado (F0)Redings Mill-no account filed
April 2003HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2003HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2003HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2003HailRedings Mill-no account filed
July 2003HailRedings Mill-no account filed
July 2003HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2002HailRedings Mill-no account filed
May 2001HailRedings Mill-no account filed
June 2001HailRedings Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Cliff Village0.4 miles19
Grand Falls Plaza1.2 miles19
Shoal Creek Drive1.3 miles19
Shoal Creek Estates1.4 miles19
Leawood1.7 miles19
Dennis Acres1.9 miles19
Sunnyvale2.5 miles19
Spring City2.5 miles16

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 Redings MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2553622The 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 729953. 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.