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Amazonia, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64421. It stands on Hopkins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amazonia quadrangle. 238 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Amazonia within Andrew County

Population over time

2 figures

Amazonia fell from 312 to 238 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
2010312
2020238-74 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Amazonia between 2017 and 2018, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 March 2018Debris and open burning22 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176135-01105-03162018-0200
12 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Andrew County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Amazonia: 30 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Amazonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Breit Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
City Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverview QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stewart QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Andrew County

Storms near this place

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amazonia in 17 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2019FloodAmazonia$100,000Once the Missouri River started flooding on March 9, it remained in flood through the remainder of the month. The gauges in Rulo, Brownville, and St. Joseph all hit preliminary records as a result of this flooding. The flooding was caused by several rounds of heavy snow across the Northern Plains through the winter months, followed by a rapid warm-up and several days of heavy rain. The Missouri River Basin across the Northern Plains flooded with catastrophic consequences as numerous dams and levees failed. As the water flowed into the Missouri River upstream of Andrew County, the river swelled and ultimately overwhelmed the levees along the river. Local fields were submerged, which delayed the growing season in the region. I-29 from St. Joseph northward to the Iowa/Missouri border was closed until mid May. Note: The dollar valued assigned to this event is likely inaccurate as a full tally of the extent of the physical damages is unknown. The Missouri River remained in flood through the rest of the month, into April.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindAmazonia$500Thunderstorm winds ripped a porch off a house on Route 398 near the Missouri River.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAmazonia-Downed wires and power outages near Amazonia.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAmazonia-Multiple reports of downed tree limbs and wires near County Line Road.
June 2021Flash FloodAmazonia-A construction crane along I-29 near Amazonia started tipping over due to erosion from rapid running water on a nearby creek.
June 2021Flash FloodAmazonia-After several rounds of rain caused flash flooding water rescues were taking place in and around Amazonia.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAmazonia-A two inch diameter tree is down near Amazonia.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Amazonia-Brief tornado touchdown observed by a trained spotter.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAmazonia-Emergency management estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2021HailAmazonia-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindAmazonia-no account filed
June 2005HailAmazonia-no account filed
April 2003HailAmazonia-no account filed
March 2002HailAmazonia-no account filed
July 2001HailAmazonia-no account filed
July 2001HailAmazonia-no account filed
September 2001HailAmazonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Andrew 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
Dean3.3 miles22
Nodaway4.3 miles18
Savannah5.0 miles18
Country Club Village5.3 miles22
Avenue City7.3 miles22
Kodiak8.5 miles18
Nida (historical)8.6 miles12
Fillmore10.5 miles12

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 AmazoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2178535The 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 730049. 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.