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Robertsville, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Calvey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63072. It stands on Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gray Summit quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Robertsville within Franklin County

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

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Robertsville between 2001 and 2018, burning about 17 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning9

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
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation138120-03655-07052016-1746
13 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation166028-03655-03082018-1356
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation165944-03655-03052018-0113
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation135248-03655-03262016-1435
26 March 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135249-03655-03262016-1450

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Robertsville: 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Drake MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
McKeever QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
St. Mary's MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
St. Mary's QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robertsville in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 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
April 2005HailRobertsville-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindRobertsville-The County Sheriff reported trees down blocking Highway N.
April 1998HailRobertsville-Hail up to golfball size fell in Robertsville.
April 2013HailRobertsville-no account filed
April 2011HailRobertsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Meramec Terrace0.9 miles19
Catawissa1.8 miles19
Prater3.7 miles19
The Diamonds4.6 miles19
Calvey (historical)4.7 miles20
Moselle4.8 miles22
Gray Summit5.2 miles19
Villa Ridge5.5 miles22

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 RobertsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470947The 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 731638. 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.