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Blue Eye, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. The Survey maps it on the Blue Eye quadrangle. 289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Blue Eye within Stone County

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Eye grew from 167 to 289 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
2010167
2020289+122 (+73%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Blue Eye between 1992 and 2020, burning about 788 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
8 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177449-10404-07232018-1717
12 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined145 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176963-10404-05122018-1805
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178821-10404-04022019-2300
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178820-10404-04022019-1325

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Eye in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 18 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye1 killed, $40,000A large oak tree was up rooted and fell on a camper trailer at the Old 86 Campground at Table Rock Lake. A woman sleeping in the camper was killed.
August 2013Flash FloodBlue Eye$50,000Several residents in the Blue Eye area off Highway 13 and Highway 86 along Brush Creek are being rescued due to high water as water began to enter homes.
December 2010Tornado (EF0)Blue Eye$50,000The Stone County Office of Emergency Management surveyed damage from a tornado approximately three miles south-southeast of Lampe. There was minor damage to one frame home and one mobile home. There was damage to two large farm gas tanks, a stock trailer, and an outbuilding. The peak wind speeds were estimated at 65 miles per hour.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye$15,000Several large trees and power poles were damaged by high winds. Barn siding, peeled from the barn, was twisted around and stuck in trees.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye$15,000A large 50 x 24 metal barn was destroyed and several trees were downed in the woods.
December 2010Tornado (EF0)Blue Eye$15,000An EF-0 tornado touched down in Carrol County, Arkansas and moved into Stone County, Missouri. This tornado caused damage near an open field southwest of the intersection of Highway 86 and Highway 13 north of Blue Eye. The tornado knocked down several trees while destroying a carport at a residence. The tornado lifted as it was crossing Highway 13. The peak wind speeds were estimated at 65 miles per hour.
May 2011LightningBlue Eye$10,000A house was hit by lightning.
May 1998HailBlue Eye$10,000Quarter to golf ball size hail covered the ground.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye$5,000High winds damaged siding on an outbuilding.
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Blue Eye$5,000A brief EF-1 tornado occurred about 5 miles southeast of Lampe or about 1 mile north of Blue Eye. There was damage to several outbuildings and trees. Some minor damage to a home was noted. Multiple trees were uprooted. Winds were estimated up to 90 mph and a path width of 75 yards.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye$5,000Microburst winds downed power lines along with a few large trees.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye$2,000Trees were blown down over Dock Miller Road.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over a tree and a power line just north of the intersection of Highway 86 and Kiwi.
May 2024HailBlue Eye-Report of golf ball size hail.
May 2024HailBlue Eye-Report of quarter size hail.
December 2021HailBlue Eye-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
December 2021HailBlue Eye-Half dollar sized hail was reported.
May 2019HailBlue Eye-Dime to nickel size was reported near the intersection of Highways 86 and 13.
June 2017HailBlue Eye-Quarter size hail was reported at the post office in Blue Eye.
May 2017HailBlue Eye-Golf ball size hail was reported at Dogwood Canyon.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye-Several large trees were blown down and blocked both lanes of the roadway bear Highway 86 and Morningside Falls Blvd.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye-Several trees were blown down blocking Highway 86 between Highway 13 and Highway JJ.
July 2015Flash FloodBlue Eye-The intersection of State Highway EE and Brush Creek Road was flooded and impassable from Brush Creek.
August 2013Heavy RainBlue Eye-A storm total of five inches of rainfall fell overnight.
August 2013Flash FloodBlue Eye-Peace In The Valley Road was flooded and impassable.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over several trees.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye-Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Shell Knob and Blue Eye.
April 2018HailBlue Eye-no account filed
March 2017HailBlue Eye-no account filed
May 2017HailBlue Eye-no account filed
April 2011HailBlue Eye-no account filed
March 2007HailBlue Eye-no account filed
March 2006HailBlue Eye-no account filed
August 2005HailBlue Eye-no account filed
April 2003HailBlue Eye-no account filed
October 2001HailBlue Eye-no account filed
February 2000HailBlue Eye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Homer1.5 miles16
Lampe5.0 miles16
Nauvoo6.1 miles15
Coney Island6.5 miles16
Baxter6.9 miles16
Dorcas (historical)7.7 miles16
Radical8.6 miles16
Marmaros8.9 miles16

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 Blue EyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956586The 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 714403. 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.