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Wood Hill, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65622. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo quadrangle.

Wood Hill within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Wood Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,763 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
3 September 2000Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism100 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190497-03016-04152019-1000
1 April 1995Arson/incendiarism60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning200 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 March 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wood Hill: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Day LandIronPast Producer
Siegel MinesZincPast Producer
James Evans ProspectLeadPast Producer
Rambo MineLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wood Hill in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWood Hill$50,000Several power poles and lines were down along Highway 73.
April 2026Tornado (EF0)Wood Hill$30,000A National Weather Service survey determined that an EF0 tornado with winds up to 80mph briefly touched down north of Pumpkin Center. Damage included several outbuildings including a concrete block milk barn. Roofing tin from another barn was blown north, east and south of the barn. Trees were also uprooted.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindWood Hill$15,000A National Weather Service storm survey concluded that straight line winds of 80 mph tossed two large metal carports and uprooted a couple of trees.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Wood Hill$5,000A NWS storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado briefly touched down in rural Dallas County. A detached garage was separated from the foundation and blown 5 feet to the west. A large sliding door from a shop was peeled off and thrown approximately 80 yards to the northeast. Approximately 7 trees were snapped around the farm. Several shingles were peeled off a home.
July 2019Heavy RainWood Hill-A 24 hour rainfall of 2.50 inches was measured.
March 2010HailWood Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Pumpkin Center1.7 miles17
Plad3.4 miles14
Dallion Ford (historical)4.8 miles14
Hackler Ford (historical)4.9 miles14
Tilden4.9 miles14
Louisburg5.4 miles19
Windyville6.5 miles14
Mathis6.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735924. 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.