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Breckenridge Hills, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Midland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63114. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 4,458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Breckenridge Hills within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Breckenridge Hills fell from 4,746 to 4,458 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
20104,746
20204,458-288 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Breckenridge Hills in 2014, 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/undetermined1

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
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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 Breckenridge Hills: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Alton Brick Co Pit & PlantClayProducer
Evans and Howard Mine Number FiveClayPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breckenridge Hills in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge Hills$500,000A line of severe storms moved through St. Louis County. There were numerous reports of trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down in Bridgeton, St. Ann, Overland, Olivette, University City and Richmond Heights. One tree was blown onto a house at the intersection of St. Henry and St. Sebastian Lanes and another one onto a house at the intersection of Ashby Road and San Carlos Lane, both in St. Ann. One of the homes was destroyed and the other sustained moderate damage. No injuries were reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge Hills$3,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree.
May 2025HailBreckenridge Hills-A few quarter sized hailstones fell east of Maryland Heights.
May 2019Flash FloodBreckenridge Hills-Up to two inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. One creek in the Woodson Terrace area rose well above it's banks and flooded several homes. Also, several secondary roads were briefly flooded.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge Hills-As a severe thunderstorm moved eastward across the northern portions of the St. Louis metro area, numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down between St. Ann and Woodson Terrace/Berkeley area. Roofing material was blown off of the buildings at Northwest Plaza onto the parking lot. In Woodson Terrace, a large tree was blown down. It hit two homes causing moderate roof damage to both.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge Hills-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and numerous large tree limbs in St. Ann, Woodson Terrace and Olivette. Several homes had minor to moderate roof damage from the fallen trees and tree limbs.
April 2012HailBreckenridge Hills-There were numerous reports of golfball sized hail across St. Ann.
March 2019HailBreckenridge Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Mary Ridge0.6 miles20
Schuermann Heights0.6 miles20
Woodson Terrace0.9 miles20
Overland1.0 miles20
Saint Ann1.2 miles22
Saint Johns1.3 miles20
Sycamore Hills1.3 miles20
Edmundson1.5 miles20

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 Breckenridge HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967580The 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 755811. 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.