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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.

Wooldridge within Cooper County

Population over time

2 figures

Wooldridge 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.

YearPeople Change
201061
202028-33 (-54%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

2,620 words on this township

A 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 1994

Regional 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251266-02732-08242020-1755
4 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBig Muddy National Wildlife RefugeRAILROAD FIREWORKS
26 July 1999Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreBig Muddy National Wildlife RefugeI70 DITCH
11 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178946-02732-06112019-1315
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176923-02732-04222018-0839
16 April 2020Debris and open burning2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation210506-02732-04162020-1515

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Columbia DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huntsdale Dredge Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Frank Smith LandBarium-BariteProspect
H A Kaiser LandBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BariteProspect
Lupus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWooldridge-Large tree branches across roadway entering into Wooldridge.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWooldridge-Large tree branches across roadway entering into Wooldridge.
May 2004Flash FloodWooldridge-Gooches Mill Road closed due to water over the road between V and Conner Bridge roads.
May 2004Flash FloodWooldridge-V Highway at Big Lick Road closed due to water over the road.
August 2001HailWooldridge-no account filed
April 1999HailWooldridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooper 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
Pleasant Grove3.0 miles18
Overton4.0 miles19
Clarks Fork7.0 miles18
Prairie Home7.3 miles18
Merna8.1 miles18
Windsor Place9.2 miles18
Pisgah11.2 miles17
Boonville12.6 miles18

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 WooldridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2257333The 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.