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Whitesville, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Platte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64480. It stands on Agee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitesville quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Whitesville within Andrew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Whitesville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 25 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
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
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178425-00205-07102018-1520
12 May 2018Other causes2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178423-00205-05122018-1825
1 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190463-00205-03012020-0835
26 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177976-00205-02262018-1345
11 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190462-00205-02112020-1135
6 October 1999Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177974-00205-01302018-1730

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Andrew County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Whitesville: 7 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H.M.Denny QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Andrew County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesville in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
June 1994Tornado (F2)Whitesville1 killed, 2 hurt, $5,000,000A tornado touched down southeast of Whitesville destroying 12 mobile homes. A 58-year old woman was killed and her husband injured in one of the mobile homes, which had been tied down. Another occupant sustained minor injuries after fleeing the home to seek shelter in a nearby pickup truck. The storm also damaged a workshop and buildings on a nearby farm with total damage estimates around $950,000. (F58M)
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWhitesville-Tree down across BB Highway.
June 2004Flash FloodWhitesville-Heavy rains have caused water over roads.
November 2015HailWhitesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Andrew 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
Rea2.4 miles12
Flag Springs3.7 miles13
Cawood3.9 miles13
Empire Prairie4.5 miles13
Wyeth5.0 miles12
Rosendale5.5 miles12
Fountainbleau6.0 miles17
Bolckow6.5 miles12

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 WhitesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27983824The 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 728792. 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.