BlockBefore

Birmingham, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Chouteau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64161. It stands on Little Shoal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Birmingham within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Birmingham grew from 183 to 189 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
2010183
2020189+6 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Birmingham between 1997 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176031-04834-03072018-1713

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Birmingham: 41 past producers, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Liberty Bend Pit & PlantSilicaProducer
Santa Fe QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sugar Creek Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayPast Producer
City Wide SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holliday Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Randolph DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birmingham in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBirmingham-Downed tree and wires just north of Birmingham near World's of Fun.
August 2004Flash FloodBirmingham-Randolph and Northeast Birmingham near Ameristar Casino closed due to water over the roadway.
September 2010HailBirmingham-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBirmingham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Minneville0.6 miles24
East Kansas City2.4 miles24
Randolph2.4 miles24
Claycomo3.3 miles24
Liberty Landing (historical)3.4 miles24
Winnwood Gardens3.4 miles40
Maple Park3.4 miles40
Glenaire3.8 miles24

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 BirminghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2188746The 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 714269. 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.