Southard, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Gasconade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65470. It stands on Norris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winnipeg quadrangle.

Southard within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1943 USGS Drynob quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Drynob quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Winnipeg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Winnipeg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Southard between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,734 acres in total. None started naturally. 56 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
Arson/incendiarism	56
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	O HIGHWAY
25 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	173 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	GULF
9 April 2011	Debris and open burning	71 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	NORRIS CREEK
9 April 2011	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	MAYFIELD SPRING
8 April 2015	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	WEDGEWOOD
8 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Mark Twain National Forest	NEW HOME CHURCH
8 April 1995	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	COMPETITION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southard in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Southard	$250,000	An EF1 tornado with peak winds around 90 mph started just west of Lynchburg and tracked northeast into far northwestern Texas County. In Laclede County, the tornado damaged numerous barns and damaged the roof of a home. Numerous trees were uprooted and damaged. The tornado then tracked northeast into Texas County.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Southard	-	Multiple trees were reported down.
April 2022	Hail	Southard	-	Penny sized hail was reported.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Southard	-	Norris Creek was out of the banks after rising rapidly and flooding near by property. Over five inches of rainfall was measured at this location.

Every storm recorded in Laclede 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nebo	2.2 miles	17
Clark Ford	3.1 miles	17
Lynchburg	3.9 miles	17
Casey Ford	4.0 miles	17
Jacksonville	4.7 miles	17
Winnipeg	4.9 miles	17
Falcon	5.0 miles	17
Adam Ford	6.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 752273. 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.

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.