Ashburn, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Salt River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63433. It lies near Goose Gap Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ashburn quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAshburn fell from 52 to 33 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 | 52 | |
| 2020 | 33 | -19 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1931 USGS Barry quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Barry quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Barry quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Barry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Ashburn quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Ashburn quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ashburn between 1994 and 2009, burning about 265 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 140 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 March 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 March 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 March 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 March 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 March 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 65 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ashburn: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashburn in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashburn | $5,000 | Four large trees were blown down onto Highway 79 near the intersection with Route TT. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashburn | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped off several large trees at the Dupont Reservation Conservation Area. Further southeast, numerous large tree limbs were snapped off in Louisiana. Also in Louisiana, a couple of trees were snapped off or uprooted, power lines blown down and a park pavilion sustained damage. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashburn | - | Some tree limbs were blown down. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashburn | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Ashburn | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashburn | - | 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.
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 Ashburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960815 | 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 713425. 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.








