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Bucklin, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bucklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64631. The Survey maps it on the Bucklin quadrangle. 413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Bucklin within Linn County

Population over time

2 figures

Bucklin fell from 467 to 413 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
2010467
2020413-54 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

7,747 words on this township

Compendium of History and Biography of Linn County, Missouri, published 1912 names this settlement in its chapter on Bucklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first structures in Bucklin were the railroad shanties. Noah Carter operated the first store. F. A. Davenport, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Davenport, was the first male child born in Bucklin, his birth occurring in December, 1855. Sarah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Austin, was the first girl baby born in the to-\\Ti.

Passage source: Compendium of History and Biography of Linn County, Missouri, published 1912.

Following the depression caused by the Civil War, Bucklin thrived rapidly. New stores were put up and various industries established. The Bucklin mills were built and put in operation by Messrs. Pounds & Stevenson in 1867. The plant cost between $5,000 and $6,000, and was the most complete of its kind in this section of the state. It diverted an immense amount of traffic to Bucklin.

Passage source: Compendium of History and Biography of Linn County, Missouri, published 1912.

The failure of Bucklin to secure the Santa Fe division had a depressing effect temporarily; business was quiet and enterprise lagged. Marceline, the place selected by the road for the division, was only six miles south, and it naturally developed fast. People from Linn and other counties were hastening there to get into business while the floodtide of prosperity was on.

Passage source: Compendium of History and Biography of Linn County, Missouri, published 1912.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bucklin Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bucklin between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220651-05810-09032020-1430
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220560-05810-07122020-1430
1 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190362-05810-04012020-2145
7 March 2020Debris and open burning3.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190171-05810-03072020-1445
2 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176351-05835-02022018-2350
30 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230953-05810-10302020-1225

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bucklin: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Trager QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Urbach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucklin in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindBucklin-About a mile to two miles south of the main tornado circulation widespread unidirectional wind damage occurred, likely as a result of a strong rear flank downdraft. This RFD wind was responsible for numerous damaged residences and outbuildings across Linn County.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBucklin-About a mile to two miles south of the main tornado circulation widespread unidirectional wind damage occurred, likely as a result of a strong rear flank downdraft. This RFD wind was responsible for numerous damaged residences and outbuildings across Linn County.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBucklin-A trained spotter in Marceline reported a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBucklin-Power lines were blown down.
August 2009Flash FloodBucklin-State Route WW was closed near Mussel Fork Creek, due to flooding.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBucklin-Large branches down on street.
April 2019HailBucklin-no account filed
June 2011HailBucklin-no account filed
June 2010HailBucklin-no account filed
February 2009HailBucklin-no account filed
May 2009HailBucklin-no account filed
April 2006HailBucklin-no account filed
April 2006HailBucklin-no account filed
May 2004HailBucklin-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBucklin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Saint Catharine5.6 miles11
Marceline5.7 miles9
Snowdon (historical)7.2 miles11
Benson8.2 miles9
Johnstown9.5 miles11
Brookfield9.7 miles11
Hybrid (historical)10.7 miles11
New Boston11.9 miles9

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 BucklinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958300The 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 735539. 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.