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Romance, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Barren Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65773. It lies near Cooper Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Willhoit quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Romance within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 13 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Romance between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,695 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2

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
13 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Natural12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Romance: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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
Charles Rippee Iron MineIronOccurrenceSurface
D + D Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romance in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2023HailRomance-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
November 2015FloodRomance-County Road 115 just about 3 miles east of Noble was flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Willhoit2.3 miles13
Grabeel (historical)2.6 miles13
Almartha3.3 miles14
Noble4.1 miles13
Nottinghill5.1 miles13
Souder5.5 miles13
Brixey5.7 miles13
Summit City6.1 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 RomanceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469274The 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 751956. 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.