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Uva, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63401. The Survey maps it on the Hannibal West quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Uva within Marion 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Uva between 1992 and 2020, burning about 107 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
17 August 2020Other causesunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230745-06438-08172020-2035
25 July 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179720-06417-07252019-1010
21 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178954-06438-05072019-1824
5 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177318-06417-05052018-1413
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177480-06438-04242018-1353
20 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177319-06417-04202018-1619
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177477-06438-04122018-1740

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Uva: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bleigh Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Poage PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Central Stone #7 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marblehead Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stewart Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Mount Zion Community0.8 miles17
Withers Mill1.8 miles17
White Bear2.3 miles17
Barkley3.0 miles11
Mungers3.2 miles18
Helton3.5 miles18
Lamb3.6 miles17
Oakwood4.4 miles17

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 UvaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20710844The 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 740404. 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.