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Caledonia, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bellevue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63631. It stands on Reynolds Branch. The Survey maps it on the Belgrade quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Caledonia within Washington County

On record in Caledonia

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Caledonia grew from 130 to 131 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
2010130
2020131+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Caledonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
26 June 1998Debris and open burning14 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined155 acresMissouri Department of ConservationLAREDO
8 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220575-11040-04282020-1735
26 April 2000Smoking20 acresMark Twain National ForestPRUITT MOUNTAIN
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burning29 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176319-09401-03042018-1541
3 March 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Caledonia: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Flagstone, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Peach Orchard DiggingsLead, Silver, ZincOccurrenceGalena, Smithsonite
Unknown-SsFlagstonePast Producer
Dry Fork DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Eversole MineLeadPast Producer
Swallow MineLeadPast Producer
Adams PropertyIronPast Producer
Nicholson BankIronPast Producer
Robinson MineIronPast Producer
Unknown-IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCaledonia$500,000Strong winds tore the roofs off a laundromat and feed store along Highways 21 and 32. Union Electric had to clear pieces of sheet metal and building material from overhead power lines. Trees were also uprooted or blown down through out the community. Many of the trees fell on buildings or cars causing further damage.
March 2025HailCaledonia-Quarter sized hail fell in Caledonia. Some hailstones may have been slightly larger than quarters.
April 2025Flash FloodCaledonia-The Dent Branch of the Big River was reportedly swiftly running over Highway C where a bridge crosses the road. Rainfall totals through the event were on the order of 2.5 to 4.3 inches.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Thunderstorm winds blew down two large trees in town.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-A trained spotter reported that his personal weather station recorded an unofficial wind gust of 85 mph at 346 am as the storms moved through. There were numerous trees blown down along Highway 21 south of Caledonia, as well as along Highway 32 east of town. Just west northwest of Irondale, several trees were blown down along State Highway U near Hunt Lane.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Thunderstorm winds snapped off a power pole in Caledonia.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree. It fell onto nearby power lines, pulling them down as well.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Caledonia-A tornado briefly touched down north of Caledonia in a wooded area. It was captured on video by two different trained spotters. Tree debris could be seen in the air once it touched down. No other damage was found or reported. It was rated EF0 with a max path length of approximately two tenths of a mile and an estimated path width of 100 yards.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Thunderstorm winds blew down several tree limbs just north of Caledonia onto Highway 21.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Several large trees were blown over onto Route C near Highway 21.
April 2002Tornado (F1)Caledonia-A tornado formed in southeast Washington County just south of Caledonia. The tornado formed in a wooded area them moved east to a home near Highway 21 and Buford Farm Road. An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed and several vehicles were severely damaged.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-County sheriff reported trees down on county road 627.
April 2026HailCaledonia-no account filed
April 2026HailCaledonia-no account filed
April 2024HailCaledonia-no account filed
August 2019HailCaledonia-no account filed
October 2014HailCaledonia-no account filed
July 2006HailCaledonia-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Belgrade4.4 miles21
Holiday Shores5.5 miles24
Peoria5.9 miles23
Irondale6.9 miles20
Sunlight7.1 miles23
Horton Town8.1 miles23
Hopewell9.3 miles20
Bates Creek Camp10.2 miles21

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 CaledoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q594529The 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 749157. 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.