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Bunceton, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Kelly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65237. The Survey maps it on the Bunceton quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Bunceton within Cooper County

On record in Bunceton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bunceton fell from 354 to 334 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
2010354
2020334-20 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

705 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Kelly Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Kelly Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bunceton between 2018 and 2019, 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
Debris and open burning3
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
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176925-02732-04272018-1635
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190043-02732-04132019-2255
3 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176875-02732-03032018-1236
2 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176873-02732-03022018-1225

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooper 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 Bunceton: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous, Zinc, Lead. 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
Unknown - Coal ZincBituminous, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Leonard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Prestage Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cooper County

Storms near this place

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunceton in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 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
June 2007Flash FloodBunceton$2,000Two cars were swept off Highway 5.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindBunceton$1,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBunceton-Downed wires in Bunceton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBunceton-Large tree uprooted.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindBunceton-A squall line produced a measured wind gusts of 70 mph just west of Bunceton.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBunceton-Estimated 60 mph winds south of Bunceton.
June 2020FloodBunceton-State Highway B was closed due to flooding.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBunceton-A tree was downed blocking a road near Bunceton.
May 2013Flash FloodBunceton-State Highway J was closed due to high water.
April 2012Flash FloodBunceton-MODOT had to close portions of Highway B and Highway 87 in Cooper County, due to water running over the road.
September 2008Flash FloodBunceton-Approximately six inches of water was reported over the road on Highway B.
April 2001Flash FloodBunceton-Main street reported under water due to heavy rains. Reported by emergency management.
April 2013HailBunceton-no account filed
January 2008HailBunceton-no account filed
June 2006HailBunceton-no account filed
April 2005HailBunceton-no account filed
November 2005HailBunceton-no account filed
May 2002HailBunceton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooper 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
Petersburg (historical)0.9 miles18
Bellair3.9 miles18
Speed4.1 miles18
Lone Elm4.2 miles17
New Lebanon7.6 miles18
Billingsville7.9 miles18
Pisgah8.0 miles17
Pilot Grove8.4 miles18

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 BuncetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965867The 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 715036. 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.