Woodside, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Woodside Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65606. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Couch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Couch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
44 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Woodside between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,281 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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 | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | BRASWELL |
| 1 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | SISCO |
| 28 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | DEAD DOG NORTH I |
| 7 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | AA SOUTH II |
| 7 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | DEAD DOG NORTH II |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Woodside: 13 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Zinc, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| C.S.&R Zinc Mine | Iron, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Hess Zinc Mine | Iron, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Carson Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Dewey Minich Property | Iron | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Doan-Ives Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Drew Whitten Mine | Iron | Prospect | 1945 | |
| Erman Mcgibney Property | Iron | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Freeman Prospect | Iron | Prospect | ||
| L.O. Huddleston | Iron | Prospect | Surface |
Storms near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodside in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodside | - | Several large trees limbs were reported down. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Woodside | - | Highway 160 was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Woodside | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Woodside | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Woodside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27986218 | The 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 740123. 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.






