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Amity, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Camden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64422. The Survey maps it on the Amity quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Amity within DeKalb County

Population over time

2 figures

Amity fell from 54 to 26 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
201054
202026-28 (-52%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Amity in 2018, burning about 60 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177472-03220-08052018-1516
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177465-03220-04072018-1326
30 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution28 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177470-03220-04302018-2324
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177469-03220-04262018-1733
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177468-03220-04242018-1949
21 April 2018Debris and open burning3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177467-03220-04212018-1629
26 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177464-03220-02262018-1400
29 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176024-03220-01292018-1456

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Amity: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Everett Q #52Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amity in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2021Flash FloodAmity-Portions of Highway J were overflowing with water.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAmity-Several structures were blown down or sustained damage at and around the intersection of HWY 6 and McCartney Road. A barn was destroyed and a couple residences on either side of the intersection sustained some roof damage. Powerlines along hwy 6 were also down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAmity-Thunderstorm winds were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Amity-A brief EF0 tornado touchdown occurred in rural land at 1913 CST. Tree branches were snapped off.
May 2004Flash FloodAmity-Heavy rains caused a brief evacuation of a trailer park due to rapidly rising waters. Water over Highway EE.
May 2004Flash FloodAmity-Several roads closed due to high water.
April 2016HailAmity-no account filed
March 2012HailAmity-no account filed
May 2012HailAmity-no account filed
July 2011HailAmity-no account filed
May 2005HailAmity-no account filed
April 2003HailAmity-no account filed
March 2000HailAmity-no account filed
March 1997HailAmity-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Maysville4.1 miles15
Oak5.2 miles17
Wood5.7 miles15
Clarksdale7.2 miles17
Orchid7.5 miles17
Boxford (historical)8.2 miles17
Stewartsville8.9 miles15
Fordham9.2 miles15

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 AmityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957954The 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 729417. 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.