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Collins, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Collins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64738. It stands on East Branch Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weaubleau quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Collins within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Collins fell from 159 to 125 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
2010159
2020125-34 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Collins between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,092 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined62 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177539-09339-05132018-1041
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177536-09339-04092018-1641
9 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation138824-09339-04092016-1311
10 April 2018Debris and open burning13 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177537-09339-04102018-1442
10 April 2016Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation138831-09339-04102016-0212

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Collins: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Baumgardner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nelson Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collins in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 26 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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 2026HailCollins$250,000Hail up to 3 inches in size was reported in a mainly rural area. A few homes and vehicles suffered some damage from the hail.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindCollins$50,000Several large trees and large branches were blown down in Collins. An awning was ripped off a gas station. One building had one of its walls blown out and the roof blown off. Several roofs had shingles blown off. A large highway sign was blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCollins$50,000Strong winds associated with severe thunderstorms downed a large tree in Osceola, destroyed a mobile home 2 miles south of Collins along state Route 13, and caused damage to another mobile home and 5 barns from south of Collins to 3 miles northeast of Collins near U.S. Route 54.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCollins$15,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCollins$10,000A brick building in town suffered minor damage from high winds.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCollins$8,000Strong straight line winds damaged a machine shop, moved a storage shed 6 to 8 feet and snapped off numerous trees tops.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCollins$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed numerous trees and power lines.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCollins$1,000Reports of numerous trees down and uprooted, along with multiple power outages occurred as winds gusted to an estimated 60 mph.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCollins$500Report of a large limb down.
March 2025HailCollins-Hail to the size of ping pong balls fell north of Collins.
March 2025HailCollins-Hail to the size of ping pong balls fell in Collins.
March 2024FloodCollins-Several low water crossings around Collins were flooded and impassable. Coon Creek and Brush Creek were both out of their banks in these areas.
May 2024HailCollins-Report of golf ball size hail.
April 2024FloodCollins-County Road SE 900 at South Fork Weaubleau Creek was flooded and impassable.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCollins-Large limbs greater than six inches broke off a tree. Report was received via social media.
December 2017Thunderstorm WindCollins-There was a picture on social media of a tree snapped in Collins.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCollins-Multiple trees were uprooted near SE 1000 Road and SE 801 Road near Collins.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCollins-Several trees were reported down.
May 2011HailCollins-Public estimated 50 mph wind gusts.
November 2010Flash FloodCollins-Highway 54 flooded at the intersection of Cedar Creek, three miles west of Collins.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCollins-Thunderstorms wind gusts downed a tree along Highway 54.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCollins-Damaging winds downed trees across rural southeast St. Clair County.
June 1994HailCollins-Dime-size hail fell and large tree limbs were torn off of trees.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCollins-Dime-size hail fell and large tree limbs were torn off of trees.
May 2017HailCollins-no account filed
July 2015HailCollins-no account filed
February 2009HailCollins-no account filed
March 2008HailCollins-no account filed
June 2005HailCollins-no account filed
September 2005HailCollins-no account filed
May 2004HailCollins-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCollins-no account filed
April 2003HailCollins-no account filed
April 2003HailCollins-no account filed
May 2003HailCollins-no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindCollins-no account filed
April 2002HailCollins-no account filed
April 2002HailCollins-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCollins-no account filed
May 2002HailCollins-no account filed
July 2002HailCollins-no account filed
March 2000HailCollins-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindCollins-no account filed
April 1998HailCollins-no account filed
June 1998HailCollins-no account filed
May 1996HailCollins-no account filed
March 1996HailCollins-no account filed
March 1996HailCollins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Topper4.4 miles17
Gerster5.0 miles17
Birdsong6.0 miles17
Tracy6.4 miles17
Cobb7.0 miles16
Raney7.0 miles17
Vista7.1 miles17
Hardyville7.3 miles16

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 CollinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2044730The 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 755911. 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.