Wildwoods, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Meramec Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65565. It stands on Whittenburg Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steelville quadrangle.

Wildwoods within Crawford County

On record in Wildwoods

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Big Bend Rural Schoollisted 1978 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 22 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.

1932 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:48000
1933 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:62500
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
1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1999 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Wildwoods between 1992 and 2019, burning about 286 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	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
3 April 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 April 1997	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 April 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Wildwoods: 23 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Collins Mine	Clay, Iron	Past Producer
Grady Brothers Prospect	Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer
Halbert's Diggings	Iron, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pilz Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer
Zane Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer
Meramac River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Birds Nest	1.0 miles	22
Steelville	1.4 miles	22
Sankey (historical)	1.4 miles	22
Midland	2.3 miles	22
Idlewild	2.4 miles	19
Scott Ford	4.6 miles	21
Elaver	4.9 miles	22
Thousand Oaks	5.0 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736532. 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.