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Chesapeake, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Turnback Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65712. The Survey maps it on the Chesapeake quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Chesapeake within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Chesapeake fell from 49 to 48 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
201049
202048-1 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Chesapeake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220652-05533-09032020-1635
17 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177220-05533-07062018-0031
17 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178499-05533-04102019-1047
10 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178501-05533-04102019-1537
22 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176917-05533-03222018-1556
17 March 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Chesapeake: 21 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Lead, Zinc, 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
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronProspect
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronProspect
Griesemer Quarry No.3 & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chesapeake in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindChesapeake$25,000Thunderstorm wind gusts ripped off shingles of homes in Chesapeake.
April 2002HailChesapeake$25,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindChesapeake$5,000Several power poles and power lines were down on Highway M.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindChesapeake$5,000Thunderstorm winds did some minor damage to homes and uprooted trees.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindChesapeake-A large tree was downed on County Road 1217 just north of Highway 174.
April 2026HailChesapeake-Hail to the size of golf balls was reported in a rural portion of the county.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindChesapeake-Two uprooted trees and wind gusts estimated to 60 mph were reported. Report received via social media pictures.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindChesapeake-Multiple large trees were reported down in a residential yard via social media picture.
September 2014HailChesapeake-no account filed
April 2009HailChesapeake-no account filed
June 2005HailChesapeake-no account filed
May 2003HailChesapeake-no account filed
June 2003HailChesapeake-no account filed
November 1998HailChesapeake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Spencer4.8 miles18
McKinley4.8 miles19
Orange5.3 miles19
Paris Springs5.3 miles18
Halltown6.1 miles18
Elliott6.2 miles19
Mount Vernon7.3 miles17
Call7.7 miles17

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 ChesapeakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471957The 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 715770. 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.