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Richville, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65638. It lies near Sauls Knob. The Survey maps it on the Dora quadrangle. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Richville within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Richville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 796 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestAA
13 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1995Debris and open burning85 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 1995Debris and open burning37 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 2012Natural2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestZACH'S BRANCH
29 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
23 June 1992Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 1992Arson/incendiarism22 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richville in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2025HailRichville-Hail to the size of half dollars fell just north of Dora.
October 2019Tornado (EF1)Richville-This is the continuation of the EF-1 tornado that initially touched down in Ozark County. The tornado continued its path to the northeast after crossing into Douglas County just north of County Road 382 just east of Highway 181. It then crossing Highway 181 and 14 north of Dora while snapping and damaging hundreds of trees before lifting along Highway 289 to the northeast of Dora in southeastern Douglas County. The tornado was on the ground for a total of 12 minutes the last 6 of which were in Douglas County. The total path length was 13.05 miles with a maximum wind of 105 mph, and a maximum path width of 1/4 mile.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindRichville-A few trees were reported down near the intersection of Highway 14 and Farm Road 181.
May 2018HailRichville-no account filed
May 2018HailRichville-no account filed
June 2009HailRichville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Blanche3.7 miles13
Sedan (historical)3.9 miles13
Hale Crossing4.0 miles13
Omba (historical)4.6 miles15
Hebron4.6 miles15
Osborn Crossing5.2 miles13
Holtville5.3 miles14
Biggs (historical)5.6 miles13

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 RichvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985014The 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 751871. 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.

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.