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Bakersfield, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bayou I Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65609. It lies near Plumb Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bakersfield quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Bakersfield within Ozark County

Population over time

2 figures

Bakersfield fell from 246 to 186 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
2010246
2020186-60 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Bakersfield between 1993 and 2017, burning about 369 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 September 2014Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 July 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Bakersfield: 17 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc. 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
Alice MineZincPast Producer1888, 1890
Golman Turner PitZincPast Producer
Verbick MineZincPast Producer
Arnett LandIronPast Producer
Buttrom Land Number TwoIronProspect
C&G MineIronPast Producer1950
Glazier LandIronPast Producer
Steel BankIronPast Producer
Summers MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bakersfield in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 10 flash flood, 3 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
April 2025Flash FloodBakersfield$50,000Fast flowing high water caused road surface damage to a portion of Highway 142 near Bakersfield.
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Bakersfield$10,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in rural sections of extreme eastern Ozark County. The tornado crossed into Howell County near the community of Caulfield, Missouri. The tornado mainly damaged trees and powerlines in Ozark County, however, produced more significant damage in Howell County.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBakersfield$10,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a barn.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBakersfield$5,000Large limbs and power lines were blown down on to two homes.
March 1996HailBakersfield$5,000no account filed
April 1996HailBakersfield$1,000no account filed
March 2020HailBakersfield$500Ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
April 2025Flash FloodBakersfield-State Highway 142 was flooded between Vaughn and Truman Roads and impassable.
April 2025Flash FloodBakersfield-Missouri Route 142 at Bennetts Bayou was flooded and impassable.
April 2025Flash FloodBakersfield-Missouri Route 142 at Bennetts Bayou was flooded and impassable.
April 2025Flash FloodBakersfield-Missouri Route 142 at Bennetts Bayou was flooded and impassable.
May 2025Flash FloodBakersfield-The MO-142 roadway was closed due to flooding.
May 2025FloodBakersfield-The MO-142 roadway was closed due to flooding.
June 2025Flash FloodBakersfield-State Highway 142 was closed due to flooding.
July 2023FloodBakersfield-Low water crossings along Bennetts Bayou Creek and along multiple city roads had water flowing across them.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-A large tree fell into the path of a moving vehicle on County Road 589. No injuries were reported. Several other trees were also reported down.
April 2022HailBakersfield-Quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2019Flash FloodBakersfield-Several roads in Bakersfield were flooded due to quickly rising water along Bennetts Bayou.
April 2017Flash FloodBakersfield-Highway 142 near Bakersfield was flooded. A vehicle was submerged in the flood water.
May 2016FloodBakersfield-Missouri Highway 142 east of Bakersfield was closed due to flooding.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-The personnel at the post office estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees in a rural area north of Bakersfield.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a couple of power lines and a few trees in a rural area north of Bakersfield.
August 2005Flash FloodBakersfield-Flash flooding inundated a section of Highway 101.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Bakersfield-A National Weather Service survey indicated that an F-1 tornado tracked out of Fulton County Arkansas and across far southeast Ozark County approximately two miles south of Bakersfield. The tornado then tracked into Howell County to three miles northeast of Bakersfield. The width of the tornado was approximately 100 yards with a length of approximately 2 miles across southeast Ozark County.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees in the community of Bakersfield.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
April 2014HailBakersfield-no account filed
July 2013HailBakersfield-no account filed
June 2009HailBakersfield-no account filed
February 2008HailBakersfield-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-no account filed
April 2006HailBakersfield-no account filed
April 2006HailBakersfield-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-no account filed
May 2003Tornado (F0)Bakersfield-no account filed
July 2003HailBakersfield-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBakersfield-no account filed
May 1999HailBakersfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Thuroy3.4 miles13
Elijah6.2 miles13
Udall6.4 miles13
Sharp6.4 miles13
Udall Landing7.9 miles13
Tecumseh8.8 miles13
Dawt9.4 miles13
Dawt Mill9.4 miles13

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 BakersfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1961737The 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 735494. 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.