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Bolckow, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64427. It stands on White Cloud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bolckow quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Bolckow within Andrew County

Population over time

2 figures

Bolckow fell from 187 to 163 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
2010187
2020163-24 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bolckow between 1999 and 2020, burning about 170 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1

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
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178425-00205-07102018-1520
13 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178424-00205-05132018-1940
12 May 2018Other causes2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178423-00205-05122018-1825
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176703-00201-03232018-1238
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined95 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176702-00201-03222018-2120
17 March 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176700-00201-03132018-1543
1 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190463-00205-03012020-0835

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Andrew County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bolckow: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Andrew County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolckow in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
June 1994HailBolckow$50,000Golf ball-size hail broke windows and damage roofs. Strong wind also downed large trees.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBolckow$25,000A Northeast Andrew County citizen reported damage to a large farm storage building from severe thunderstorms winds. The same storm also knocked over 2 large trees. A severe weather spotter in Rochester reported wind gusts to 55 MPH.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBolckow$10,000Trees were down in Bolckow near Ann Street with some of the tree damage down on a car.
May 2007FloodBolckow$4,000The 102 River at Rosendale had its second highest crest ever on May 7, 2007. It crested at 23.50 feet, or 5.50 feet above flood stage. Nearly every home in the town suffered flood damage.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBolckow$1,000A power pole was blown over at Highway 71 and Route Y. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
July 2015Flash FloodBolckow-Route B was closed due to water over the road.
June 2004Flash FloodBolckow-Rivers and creeks out of their banks.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindBolckow-Emergency Management officials reported wind gusts to 60 MPH at Bolckow during a severe thunderstorm.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBolckow-Golf ball-size hail broke windows and damage roofs. Strong wind also downed large trees.
May 2019HailBolckow-no account filed
June 2011HailBolckow-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBolckow-no account filed
July 2003HailBolckow-no account filed
July 2003HailBolckow-no account filed
May 2001HailBolckow-no account filed
July 2001HailBolckow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Andrew 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
Midway2.5 miles12
Cawood3.8 miles13
Rea4.7 miles12
Rosendale4.7 miles12
Rankin6.0 miles12
Wyeth6.2 miles12
Whitesville6.5 miles13
Nida (historical)8.0 miles12

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 BolckowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962005The 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 714496. 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.