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Rockview, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Kelso Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63740. It lies near Lost Hill. The Survey maps it on the Chaffee quadrangle.

Rockview within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rockview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230865-01617-06202020-1345
8 April 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176677-10082-04182018-1049
12 April 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176676-10082-04122018-0119
4 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179691-01617-12042019-1350
8 October 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179483-01617-10082019-1515

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rockview: 9 past producers. None of them 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arnold Geisler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arnold QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockview in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 2024Thunderstorm WindRockview$1,000ASOS site at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.
August 2023Flash FloodRockview-Several roadways were flooded across northern parts of the county. Water was over roads and up to houses between Chaffee and Oran.
September 1993HailRockview-Reported by the county sheriff.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Kagel0.4 miles20
Chaffee1.7 miles20
Kelso4.8 miles21
Caney Creek5.6 miles20
Kenton (historical)5.7 miles20
New Hamburg5.8 miles21
Scott City6.2 miles21
Illmo7.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725490. 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.