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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.

Clarksburg within Moniteau County

Population over time

2 figures

Clarksburg 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.

YearPeople Change
2010334
2020254-80 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

10 since 1999

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190094-06841-04172019-0455
16 March 1999Debris and open burning100 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190089-06841-03112019-1455

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moniteau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
King Jack MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - Ls DimensionLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - Sandstone DimensionFlagstonePast Producer
Steubinger MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - Lead ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Moniteau County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994HailClarksburg$5,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindClarksburg-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple 6 to 8 inch tree limbs in Clarksburg.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindClarksburg-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in town.
September 2008FloodClarksburg-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 2007Thunderstorm WindClarksburg-Several large trees were blown down at the intersection of US Highway 50 and Route H, just south of Clarksburg.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindClarksburg-Thunderstorm wind gusts broke a power pole on the northeast side of Clarksburg.
April 2003HailClarksburg-The County Sheriff reported nickel size hail at Highway 50 and County Road E.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindClarksburg-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 2013HailClarksburg-no account filed
July 2010HailClarksburg-no account filed
January 1999HailClarksburg-no account filed
April 1996HailClarksburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Moniteau 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
California5.6 miles19
Tipton6.2 miles18
Latham6.9 miles17
Kliever8.9 miles19
Cedron9.4 miles18
Fortuna9.6 miles18
McGirk10.5 miles18
Bacon11.6 miles18

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 ClarksburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967485The 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.