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Rutledge, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Sand Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63563. The Survey maps it on the Rutledge quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Rutledge within Scotland County

On record in Rutledge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rutledge fell from 109 to 86 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010109
202086-23 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rutledge between 2014 and 2020, burning about 117 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
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
1 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122211-09944-04102015-1930
5 March 2016Debris and open burning14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133862-09917-03052016-1517
30 March 2020Debris and open burning2.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200547-09917-03302020-1711
22 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation145246-09944-11172016-1230
17 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined31 acresMissouri Department of Conservation145247-09944-11172016-1620

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rutledge: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scotland County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rutledge in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
May 2003Tornado (F0)Rutledge$250,000no account filed
June 2008LightningRutledge$150,000A lightning strike is believed to have sparked a fire that destroyed the Harmony Grove Baptist Church in rural Scotland County during the late evening of June 12 or early morning of June 13. The fire was reported around 1:30 am, at which time it was in its later stages of burning.
May 2003HailRutledge$150,000no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindRutledge$5,000The county sheriff reported power poles and lines down.
August 2024HailRutledge-The same storm that produced golf ball size hail earlier, produced more golf ball size hail again.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRutledge-A trained spotter reported some 6 inch in diameter tree branches were down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRutledge-A few 12 to 16 inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRutledge-Hail up to the size of peas also reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRutledge-Wind gusts were estimated to be 50 to 60 mph at Rutledge, IA around 6 pm on June 1.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRutledge-Wind gusts were estimated to be between 50 and 60 mph in Rutledge, MO.|
August 2005HailRutledge-Dime to penny sized hail.
June 2011HailRutledge-no account filed
May 2004HailRutledge-no account filed
April 2002HailRutledge-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Rutledge-no account filed
June 1998HailRutledge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotland 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
Sand Hill2.1 miles9
Gorin4.7 miles9
Edinburg6.6 miles9
Pleasant Retreat7.8 miles9
Etna9.2 miles15
Unity10.4 miles9
Memphis10.9 miles10
Arbela10.9 miles9

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 RutledgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962927The 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 725692. 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.