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Ruble, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63638. It lies near Mullikin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ellington quadrangle.

Ruble within Reynolds County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Ruble between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,008 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 June 2018Debris and open burning1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177679-09009-06082018-1639
22 May 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 2018Debris and open burning2.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177678-09009-05012018-1120
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism71 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190440-00000-04092020-1930
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined613 acresMissouri Department of ConservationMILL ROCK
5 April 1995Arson/incendiarism145 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reynolds County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Ruble: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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 ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Unknown ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Unknown ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Unknown ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Lone Star MineIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Reynolds County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruble in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 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 2025Tornado (EF1)Ruble$1,000A tornado that originated in Oregon County, MO and caused EF-3 level damage in Carter County, MO tracked into southern Reynolds County where it busted out the glass of a single family home. From there it continued northeast, uprooting and snapping trees along a track that passed just south of Grady and ended at Highway H. The tornado lifted here at approximately 10:29 PM. In Reynolds County the tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 9.22 miles and a maximum path width of 50 yards.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindRuble-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees onto Highway 21 about 3 miles south of Ellington.
March 2020HailRuble-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reynolds 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
Webb (historical)1.4 miles18
Helvey (historical)2.1 miles18
Grady2.2 miles18
Oakley3.1 miles18
Chitwood5.2 miles18
Garwood5.7 miles17
Hadley7.4 miles17
Ellington7.5 miles18

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 RubleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28018054The 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 741218. 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.