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Roubidoux, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Upton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65552. It stands on East Fork Roubidoux Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roubidoux quadrangle.

Roubidoux within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Roubidoux between 1992 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
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
25 July 1997Natural2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation123530-10744-04072015-1702
4 April 2005Debris and open burning138 acresMark Twain National ForestSUCCESS
15 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use36 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190176-10735-03082020-1535
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMark Twain National ForestWOLF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas 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 Roubidoux: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown - ClayKaolinPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roubidoux in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 3 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
December 2015Flash FloodRoubidoux$1,600,000Route M north of Route YY near Roubidoux Creek was closed due to flooding. Nearly all low water crossings were flooded across the county. There were numerous reports of flood-related damage to homes and businesses. There was significant damage to county roads and bridges. This storm report will contain the damage estimates for the entire county for this event.
May 2023FloodRoubidoux-Route M at Roubidoux Creek was flooded and impassable.
May 2022FloodRoubidoux-Highway M at the low water crossing on Roubidoux Creek was closed due to flooding.
January 2020Flash FloodRoubidoux-Excessive rain caused flooding on Highway M at Roubidouix Creek closing the road.
February 2019Thunderstorm WindRoubidoux-A large tree was knocked down by straight line winds across Roubidoux Road blocking traffic.
May 2019Flash FloodRoubidoux-State Highway M was closed west of Highway 17 along Roubidoux Creek.
February 2018FloodRoubidoux-Highway M was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Turley2.5 miles15
Success3.5 miles15
Upton3.8 miles14
Old Success4.0 miles15
Mitchells Corner4.1 miles15
Pleasant Ridge4.2 miles14
Windy Curve4.5 miles15
Plum Valley5.5 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122593763The 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 751968. 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.