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Bosworth, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64623. The Survey maps it on the Bosworth quadrangle. 213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Bosworth within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Bosworth fell from 305 to 213 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
2010305
2020213-92 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

1,383 words on this township

History of Carroll County, Missouri : Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri ; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri ; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ; General and Local Statistics ; Miscellany ; Reminiscences, Grave, Tragic and Humorous ; Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Citizens Identified with the Interests of the Country, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ridge Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ridge Township - 1,383 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bosworth between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,653 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178902-01702-04202018-1300
15 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178571-01749-04152019-1442
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,072 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190330-01749-03072020-1430
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176544-01749-03042018-1536
30 March 2002Debris and open burning200 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251282-01749-12262020-1458
15 November 1999Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 October 1999Debris and open burning300 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bosworth in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 1999Tornado (F2)Bosworth$300,000The tornado touched down 3 miles west of Bosworth and moved northeast into Chariton and Macon Counties. A home was destroyed 1 mile north of Bosworth and several large trees were downed before the tornado moved into Chariton County.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBosworth-Downed tree limbs and wires near Missouri Avenue in Bosworth.
August 2018Flash FloodBosworth-Route UU near Bosworth was closed due to running water over the road.
July 2008Flash FloodBosworth-Route UU was closed due to high water.
July 2008Flash FloodBosworth-Water was reported over the road on Highway M, between Highway 65 and Highway YY.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindBosworth-Thunderstorm with wind gusts to 60 mph, caused 4 inch tree limbs to snap off, and power lines to be downed. Also, a tin roof was peeled off a barn.
August 2004Flash FloodBosworth-Route UU closed due to high water.
May 2003Flash FloodBosworth-Heavy rains caused water up to 18 inches deep to flow over area roads.
April 2019HailBosworth-no account filed
May 2013HailBosworth-no account filed
April 2010HailBosworth-no account filed
May 2008HailBosworth-no account filed
June 2007HailBosworth-no account filed
March 2007HailBosworth-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBosworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Milford4.7 miles18
Leta6.9 miles16
Tina7.2 miles17
Little Compton7.3 miles17
Bridge Creek7.6 miles17
Standish7.7 miles17
De Witt8.4 miles18
Hale9.2 miles17

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 BosworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963557The 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 730061. 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.