Blodgett, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Sandywoods Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63824. The Survey maps it on the Morley quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBlodgett fell from 213 to 209 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 | 213 | |
| 2020 | 209 | -4 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 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.
- 1934 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Morley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blodgett in 2019, burning about 570 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 570 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179436-10083-09082019-1105 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Blodgett: 5 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crm Sand Pit & Plant | Silica | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blodgett in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | $30,000 | At Highway H and County Road 524, several trees were down across roads. Trees ranged in diameter from 6 to 18 inches. Six to eight houses had minor wind damage to their roofs, mainly shingles blown off. There was siding and fence damage. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | $20,000 | The roof was peeled off a storage trailer. There was shingle damage nearby. A 40-foot tree was snapped. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | $5,000 | Trees were down along U.S. Highway 61 near Haywood City. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | $3,000 | Three trees were down on H Highway. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | $2,000 | A three-inch pipe flagpole was knocked down in front of the fire station. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were reported blown down near I-55 North of Sikeston with winds estimated to 70 mph. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Blodgett | - | Multiple highways were closed due to flooding, including Highway H at Blodgett and Highway A at County Road 224. A portion of County Road 439 was closed. State Highway U at Highway 401 was nearly impassable. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Blodgett | - | Several roads were covered with water, including portions of Route A and Highway 61. |
| April 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Blodgett | - | A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud at least half way to the ground. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Blodgett | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud briefly touched down in open rural farm country. There was no apparent damage. Large hail with the associated thunderstorm caused most of the damage. |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Blodgett | - | An off-duty weather observer reported a brief touchdown near the intersection of Interstate 55 and County Road K. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Blodgett | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Blodgett | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blodgett | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porter | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Haywood City | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Morley | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| Diehlstadt | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| McMullin | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Brooks Junction | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Lambert | 6.3 miles | 20 | |
| Poor Farm (historical) | 6.6 miles | 20 |
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 Blodgett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2989992 | 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 714375. 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.











