Catron, Missouri
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Como Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63833. The Survey maps it on the Catron quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 282 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCatron fell from 67 to 41 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 67 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -26 (-39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1971 USGS Catron quadrangle1:24000
- 1973 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Catron in 1997, burning about 2 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 January 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catron in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catron | $10,000 | A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 70 mph in Catron. Interstate 55 was closed in both directions at mile marker 51 due to downed power lines. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catron | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Catron | - | A cold air funnel was viewed over Catron, viewed from the Lilbourn area. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catron | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph lasting about three or four minutes. Power outages occurred in the community. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Catron | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Catron | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krepin (historical) | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hondin (historical) | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Dodds | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Hurricane Ridge | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Como | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Sky | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Wila (historical) | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Baderville | 4.3 miles | 11 |
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 Catron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957895 | The 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 731551. 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.





