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Bloomfield, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Castor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63825. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle. 1,755 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Bloomfield within Stoddard County

On record in Bloomfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomfield fell from 1,933 to 1,755 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
20101,933
20201,755-178 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 1995 and 2020, burning about 175 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2020Debris and open burning8.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230920-10395-09272020-1600
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177386-10395-08072018-1237
23 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210550-10395-06232020-1805
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210528-10395-06132020-1700
5 April 1995Debris and open burning122 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 October 2016Recreation and ceremony40 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140842-10395-10232016-1728
2 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179446-10395-10022019-1745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Bloomfield: 41 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron. 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
Tertiary LandIronOccurrence
Dunn ShaftClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Brown Sand & Gravel-Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lemons Pit + PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$100,000In Advance, the roof was blown off a block building, chain link fences were down, and numerous trees were down. On the school grounds in Advance, a dugout at a baseball field collapsed with students inside it. An auto dealership on the south edge of Advance lost its roof and back wall. No injuries were reported. In Bloomfield, large trees were down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$50,000Just west of Bloomfield, large trees were blown across homes and roadways. In Advance, an 80-year-old pecan tree blew down, landing on a new motor home. The motor home was extensively damaged.
June 2009HailBloomfield$30,000Hailstones measuring 3 inches in diameter were photographed by an observer east of Bloomfield. Vehicles received considerable damage. Golf-ball size hail was reported north of Bloomfield.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$30,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$25,000Numerous trees were uprooted. Roofing was peeled off a number of buildings, including part of the county courthouse.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$20,000Numerous large trees were blown down. One tree fell on a house. A shed was flipped upside down and tossed across a yard.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$5,000Several trees were blown down.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$4,000A few trees were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$4,000A few trees were uprooted.
May 2006HailBloomfield$2,000Golf-ball size hail fell in Bloomfield. Baseball-size hail fell on Highway 25 about two miles north of town. Photos of baseball-size hail, taken just northwest of Bloomfield, were published in the local newspaper. Little damage was reported at the residence where the hail occurred.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$1,000Some small branches were broken in Bloomfield.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$1,000A tree fell across the road.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$500Scattered large trees were knocked down across the county. Power lines were also blown down east of Bloomfield.
March 2022FloodBloomfield-Minor flooding was reported in low-lying areas.
March 2017HailBloomfield-Quarter-size hail occurred on the northwest side of town.
April 2014Funnel CloudBloomfield-Two funnel clouds were reported by trained spotters, possibly the remnants of the tornado that moved across western Stoddard County earlier.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Trees were blown down along County Highway 514.
November 2003LightningBloomfield-A commercial building was destroyed by a fire that was believed to have been started by lightning. Two discount stores were located in the building on Highway 25.
April 2002Tornado (F0)Bloomfield-A weak tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of Highway 25 and M Highway. No damage was reported.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Scattered large trees were knocked down across the county. Power lines were also blown down east of Bloomfield.
March 2006HailBloomfield-no account filed
May 2006HailBloomfield-no account filed
August 2003Heavy RainBloomfield-no account filed
May 2002HailBloomfield-no account filed
April 2000HailBloomfield-no account filed
May 1997HailBloomfield-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-no account filed
March 1996HailBloomfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stoddard 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
Idalia3.9 miles13
Aquilla4.3 miles15
Old Shawnee Village (historical)4.5 miles15
Avert5.3 miles13
Guam5.7 miles13
Zeta (historical)5.8 miles13
Aid6.0 miles11
Essex6.2 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 BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952941The 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 714383. 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.