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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.

Woodside within Oregon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

44 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning11
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
26 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 August 2012Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBRASWELL
1 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMark Twain National ForestSISCO
28 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestDEAD DOG NORTH I
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestAA SOUTH II
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestDEAD DOG NORTH II

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C.S.&R Zinc MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Hess Zinc MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Carson Iron MineIronPast Producer
Dewey Minich PropertyIronOccurrenceSurface
Doan-Ives Iron MineIronPast Producer
Drew Whitten MineIronProspect1945
Erman Mcgibney PropertyIronOccurrenceSurface
Freeman ProspectIronProspect
L.O. HuddlestonIronProspectSurface

Every working recorded in Oregon County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Several large trees limbs were reported down.
April 2011Flash FloodWoodside-Highway 160 was closed due to flooding.
April 2018HailWoodside-no account filed
April 2018HailWoodside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oregon 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
Huddleston2.2 miles12
Greer2.7 miles14
Alton3.3 miles12
Royal Oak4.5 miles12
Braswell4.5 miles13
Hollis5.1 miles13
Simpson5.6 miles13
Lulu5.7 miles13

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 WoodsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986218The 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.