Wooldridge, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65287. The Survey maps it on the Rocheport quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWooldridge fell from 61 to 28 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 28 | -33 (-54%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1888 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Rocheport quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,620 words on this townshipA History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Saline Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Saline Township - 2,620 words.
Fires near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Wooldridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 251266-02732-08242020-1755 |
| 4 July 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge | RAILROAD FIREWORKS |
| 26 July 1999 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge | I70 DITCH |
| 11 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178946-02732-06112019-1315 |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176923-02732-04222018-0839 |
| 16 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 210506-02732-04162020-1515 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Wooldridge: 9 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Huntsdale Dredge Sand Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Frank Smith Land | Barium-Barite | Prospect | ||
| H A Kaiser Land | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Barite | Barium-Barite | Prospect | ||
| Lupus Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wooldridge in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wooldridge | - | Large tree branches across roadway entering into Wooldridge. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wooldridge | - | Large tree branches across roadway entering into Wooldridge. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Wooldridge | - | Gooches Mill Road closed due to water over the road between V and Conner Bridge roads. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Wooldridge | - | V Highway at Big Lick Road closed due to water over the road. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wooldridge | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Wooldridge | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Grove | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Overton | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Clarks Fork | 7.0 miles | 18 | |
| Prairie Home | 7.3 miles | 18 | |
| Merna | 8.1 miles | 18 | |
| Windsor Place | 9.2 miles | 18 | |
| Pisgah | 11.2 miles | 17 | |
| Boonville | 12.6 miles | 18 |
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 Wooldridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2257333 | 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 729414. 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.







