Bevier, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bevier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63532. The Survey maps it on the Bevier South quadrangle. 636 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBevier fell from 718 to 636 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 | 718 | |
| 2020 | 636 | -82 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Bevier South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
73 words on this townshipHand-book of Macon County, Missouri .., published 1888 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Bevier Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Bevier Township - 73 words.
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bevier between 1992 and 2018, burning about 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 166013-06134-03042018-1105 |
| 15 March 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176034-06134-03122018-1256 |
| 24 February 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 February 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 February 2002 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bevier in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevier | $2,000 | Small building was blown 15 feet up into a tree. Five recreational vehicles were also overturned. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevier | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Many tree branches are reported down. A swing set was also blown over. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Bevier | - | Total rainfall was 6.51 inches. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevier | - | Hen house blown over. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevier | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down along Old Highway 36. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Bevier | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Bevier | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number Eight | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Keota | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Callao | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bloomington | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Macon | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Seney | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Chariton | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Binkley | 7.2 miles | 9 |
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 Bevier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q952798 | 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 714120. 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.
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.





