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Breckenridge, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Breckenridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64625. The Survey maps it on the Breckenridge quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Breckenridge within Caldwell County

Population over time

2 figures

Breckenridge fell from 383 to 258 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
2010383
2020258-125 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Breckenridge between 1999 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation261533-03160-03052020-1620
10 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Breckenridge: 12 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Breckenridge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nettelton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breckenridge in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge-Estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Breckenridge.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge-Thunderstorm winds were estimated up to 60 mph.
May 1998HailBreckenridge-Dime-size hail was reported by a spotter in Breckenridge.
October 2021HailBreckenridge-no account filed
June 2010HailBreckenridge-no account filed
June 2010HailBreckenridge-no account filed
May 2004HailBreckenridge-no account filed
July 2004HailBreckenridge-no account filed
May 2003HailBreckenridge-no account filed
March 2000HailBreckenridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Nettleton5.3 miles10
Proctorville6.6 miles11
New York8.4 miles11
Catawba8.5 miles11
Gould Farm9.0 miles11
Shoal10.2 miles11
Hamilton10.4 miles11
Easterville10.6 miles11

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 BreckenridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965626The 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 714664. 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.