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Caruthersville, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Little Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63830. The Survey maps it on the Caruthersville quadrangle. 5,562 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Caruthersville within Pemiscot County

On record in Caruthersville

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

Caruthersville fell from 6,168 to 5,562 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
20106,168
20205,562-606 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Caruthersville between 2004 and 2019, burning about 16 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179231-07861-09202019-1650
18 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179226-07861-04022019-2010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pemiscot County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caruthersville in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 tornado, 4 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 1993Tornado (F1)Caruthersville$50,000A tornado was first reported by county officials almost two miles south of Caruthersville at a local truck weigh station. Police officials followed the tornado as it struck two factories on the southern limit of Caruthersville producing extensive damage to buildings and cars. Damage was also done to houses on South Ward Ave with many trees and utility poles knocked down. No injuries were reported, however estimated damage was as high as $30,000. The tornado lifted, passing over the town of Caruthersville as a funnel and continued until 1430 CST, with no further touchdowns.
January 1996Tornado (F1)Caruthersville$50,000no account filed
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$10,000Straight line winds knocked down trees and damaged the underpinnings of a mobile home in Caruthersville.
July 1998Flash FloodCaruthersville$10,000Several businesses in Caruthersville had up to 6 inches of water in them. A few roads were flooded as well.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$5,000Large tree down on powerlines in Caruthersville.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$5,000Straight line winds knocked trees onto power lines within the city limits of Caruthersville.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$5,000Several trees were blown down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$5,000Several trees were knocked down.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$5,000Some power lines were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$2,000Downed powerlines at the corner of 6th St and Eastwood.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$2,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$1,000Several large tree limbs were knocked down.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$1,000Several large tree limbs were knocked down.
May 2002Flash FloodCaruthersville$1,000Several roads were flooded.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville$1,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2005HailCaruthersville$750no account filed
June 1996HailCaruthersville$100no account filed
June 1995HailCaruthersville$100no account filed
July 2006Flash FloodCaruthersville$10South Ward Street was flooded resulting in traffic problems.
May 2020HailCaruthersville-Wind-driven hail caused significant damage to structures and roofs in Caruthersville.
February 2015FloodCaruthersville-Heavy rain combined with melting snow and sleet to produce flooding in Caruthersville. One street was flooded and closed.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville-Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Caruthersville.
July 2009Flash FloodCaruthersville-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Caruthersville. A few roads were flooded as a result.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville-A local radio station reported a wind gust to around 67 mph.
July 1998Tornado (F0)Caruthersville-A tornado briefly touched producing little damage.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Caruthersville-The Caruthersville Police Department reported a brief tornado touchdown.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCaruthersville-no account filed
April 2015HailCaruthersville-no account filed
May 2010HailCaruthersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pemiscot 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
Cunningham2.4 miles13
Stubtown2.6 miles13
Schult3.5 miles13
Indian Mound3.7 miles13
Carlston4.8 miles13
Kinfolks Ridge4.8 miles12
Gayoso5.1 miles11
McCarty5.7 miles12

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 CaruthersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952886The 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 715460. 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.

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.