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Ballwin, Missouri

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63011. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 31,103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Ballwin within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Ballwin grew from 30,404 to 31,103 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
201030,404
202031,103+699 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ballwin: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kempf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ballwin in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindBallwin1 killedA man was killed while hiking in Castlewood State park when he was hit by a large tree branch broken by thunderstorm winds.
June 2012HailBallwin1 hurtLarge hail up to ping pong ball size fell across Ballwin. An eleven year old girl sustained minor injuries to her head and arm due to the large hail.
July 2002LightningBallwin$200,000A lighting strike caused a fire which destroyed a 2 story home in an unincorporated area of St. Louis County just west of Ballwin. No one was home at the time of the fire.
October 2001HailBallwin$100,000no account filed
February 1999HailBallwin$50,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBallwin$30,000Widespread wind damage across the southern portions of St. Louis County. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Ballwin, Kirkwood, Sunset Hills, Glendale, Lemay, and Oakville.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBallwin$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew a large section of windows down at The Pointe, Ballwin Parks & Recreation center. This section of windows was by the giant indoor slide area of the indoor pool. Glass blew over into the pool. No one was killed or injured by this.
May 1993HailBallwin$5,000One inch diameter hail was covering the ground in Ballwin at 1735 CST. Reported by amateur radio operators and storm spotters.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBallwin-Thunderstorm winds caused a large tree limb to fall onto a house.
April 2011HailBallwin-A swath of one inch hail fell from Ballwin and points east through Manchester, Des Peres and Kirkwood.
December 2010Tornado (EF1)Ballwin-The tornado touched down just northwest of the intersection of Manchester Road and Birchwood Drive. The tornado traveled to the northeast around 45 mph crossing Kehrs Mill Road, passing through the east side of the Ballwin Golf Course, then crossing Holloway Road and Baxter Road. The tornado lifted just east of the intersection of Brass Lamp Drive and Morewood Court. There were numerous occurrences of tree damage along the tornado path including snapped trees and tree branches as well as uprooted trees. Nearly three dozen homes sustained damage, although the vast majority of this damage was superficial consisting of damaged fascia, soffit and missing/damaged shingles.
May 2008HailBallwin-Storm spotters reported hail ranging from pea to one inch fell for 15 minutes.
July 2007HailBallwin-Strom spotters reported hail up to 1 1/4 inch.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBallwin-Emergency management personnel reported 6 to 8 inch diameter trees down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBallwin-Amateur radio spotters reported several trees and power lines down in Wildwood.
April 1994HailBallwin-Quarter-size hail was reported by SKYWARN weather spotters.
May 1993HailBallwin-One inch diameter hail was covering the ground in Ballwin at 1735 CST. Reported by amateur radio operators and storm spotters.
May 1993HailBallwin-One inch diameter hail was covering the ground in Ballwin at 1735 CST. Reported by amateur radio operators and storm spotters.
June 2023HailBallwin-no account filed
December 2021HailBallwin-no account filed
September 2014HailBallwin-no account filed
April 2014HailBallwin-no account filed
June 2006HailBallwin-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBallwin-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBallwin-no account filed
May 2004HailBallwin-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBallwin-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBallwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Winchester1.0 miles29
Loehr1.4 miles29
Manchester2.0 miles29
Ellisville2.2 miles29
Clarkson Valley2.8 miles29
Fern Glen3.1 miles29
Mountain Ridge3.1 miles29
Castlewood3.1 miles29

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 BallwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q805392The 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 755721. 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.

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.