Sabula, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63620. It stands on Carver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glover quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Des Arc quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1929 USGS Des Arc quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Glover quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2000 USGS Glover quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Sabula between 1992 and 2014, burning about 512 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 May 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 April 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 April 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | CORNER |
| 2 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 280 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sabula: 12 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Stone, Dimension, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Copper | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Benson Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Granite Dimension | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Woodside-Chrisco Bank | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Annapolis | Lead | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Unknown - Lead | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Lead | Lead | Prospect |
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabula in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Hail | Sabula | - | A wide swath of large hail fell between Chloride and Annapolis. The largest hail stones were two inches in diameter. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabula | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Highway 49 just north of Annapolis. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Sabula | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Sabula | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Sabula | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Sabula | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sabula | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Sabula | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27985389 | The 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 751995. 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.













