Clarksburg, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Moreau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65025. The Survey maps it on the Clarksburg quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClarksburg fell from 334 to 254 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 | 334 | |
| 2020 | 254 | -80 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1888 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Clarksburg between 1999 and 2020, burning about 124 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190094-06841-04172019-0455 |
| 16 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190089-06841-03112019-1455 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Clarksburg: 17 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Jack Mine | Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls Dimension | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Sandstone Dimension | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Steubinger Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Barite | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Lead Zinc | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Lead Zinc | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksburg in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Hail | Clarksburg | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksburg | - | Thunderstorm winds downed multiple 6 to 8 inch tree limbs in Clarksburg. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksburg | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in town. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Clarksburg | - | Up to four inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded and several of them were washed out including Highway D near the Moniteau Creek Bridge. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksburg | - | Several large trees were blown down at the intersection of US Highway 50 and Route H, just south of Clarksburg. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts broke a power pole on the northeast side of Clarksburg. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Clarksburg | - | The County Sheriff reported nickel size hail at Highway 50 and County Road E. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees and power lines. About half of the town lost power during the storm. The roof of the concession stand at a baseball field was also blown off. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Clarksburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clarksburg | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Clarksburg | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Clarksburg | - | 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.
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 Clarksburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967485 | 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 715893. 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.







