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.
Population over time
2 figuresBosworth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 305 | |
| 2020 | 213 | -92 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1890 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Bosworth quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,383 words on this townshipHistory 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 1997Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178902-01702-04202018-1300 |
| 15 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178571-01749-04152019-1442 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,072 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190330-01749-03072020-1430 |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176544-01749-03042018-1536 |
| 30 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 251282-01749-12262020-1458 |
| 15 November 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 October 1999 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Bosworth | $300,000 | The 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bosworth | - | Downed tree limbs and wires near Missouri Avenue in Bosworth. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Bosworth | - | Route UU near Bosworth was closed due to running water over the road. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Bosworth | - | Route UU was closed due to high water. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Bosworth | - | Water was reported over the road on Highway M, between Highway 65 and Highway YY. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bosworth | - | 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Bosworth | - | Route UU closed due to high water. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Bosworth | - | Heavy rains caused water up to 18 inches deep to flow over area roads. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Bosworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Bosworth | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Bosworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Bosworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bosworth | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Bosworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bosworth | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milford | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Leta | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Tina | 7.2 miles | 17 | |
| Little Compton | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Bridge Creek | 7.6 miles | 17 | |
| Standish | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| De Witt | 8.4 miles | 18 | |
| Hale | 9.2 miles | 17 |
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 Bosworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963557 | 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 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.








