Blythedale, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64426. It stands on Bracken Branch. The Survey maps it on the Eagleville quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBlythedale grew from 193 to 211 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 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 211 | +18 (+9%) |
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.
- 1947 USGS Blythedale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Eagleville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blythedale in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179393-04170-07282019-1710 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Blythedale: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blythedale in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blythedale | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and knocked down 2 large trees 5 miles southeast of Blythesdale. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blythedale | $3,000 | Large trees down and 6 outbuildings destroyed. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blythedale | - | Several large trees and powerlines were blown down across the Blythedale and Eagleville areas. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Blythedale | - | Quarter-size hail was reported by the public 3 miles southeast of Andover while dime-size hail was observed by the county sherrif's office 4 miles northeast of Blythedale. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Blythedale | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Blythedale | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Blythedale | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Blythedale | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Blythedale | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Blythedale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagleville | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Andover | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Akron | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Ridgeway | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Pawnee | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Brooklyn | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Cainsville | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Gardner | 11.6 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 Blythedale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2541544 | 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 714451. 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.





