Climax Springs, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Adair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65324. It lies near Canfield Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Climax Springs quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClimax Springs fell from 124 to 118 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 | 124 | |
| 2020 | 118 | -6 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1887 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 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
- 1960 USGS Climax Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Harry S Truman Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
129 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Climax Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 5,240 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 44 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2000 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 24 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 240 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 July 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 640 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Climax Springs: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniels and Browns Diggings | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Givens Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Wilkerson Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dodds | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Bannister Ford | 5.5 miles | 20 | |
| Crittenden (historical) | 5.8 miles | 20 | |
| Bannister | 5.8 miles | 20 | |
| Barnumton | 6.0 miles | 20 | |
| Sagrada | 8.1 miles | 20 | |
| Macks Creek | 10.4 miles | 16 | |
| Big Bend Acres | 11.2 miles | 20 |
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 Climax Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2123937 | 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 755543. 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.








