Columbia, Missouri

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• Boone County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 42 shown

• Sanborn Field and Soil Erosion PlotsNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Ballenger Buildinglisted 2004
• John W. Boone Houselisted 1980
• Central Dairy Buildinglisted 2005
• Coca-Cola Bottling Company Buildinglisted 2006
• Columbia Cemeterylisted 2007
• Columbia National Guard Armorylisted 1993
• Sanford F. Conley Houselisted 1973
• Fred Douglass Schoollisted 1980
• Downtown Columbia Historic Districtlisted 2006
• East Campus Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1996
• Samuel H. and Isabel Smith Elkins Houselisted 1996

Every listing in Boone County

Columbia grew from 130 to 126,254 between 1823 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.

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.

• 1886 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1935 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
• 1967 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1982 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Missouri township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Missouri Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Columbia in 2005, burning under an acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Deer Park
• Elkhurst
• Harg
• Moores Switch
• Pierpont
• Smithton (historical)

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Columbia: 16 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Boone County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Columbia in 209 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 125 hail, 64 thunderstorm wind, 9 lightning, 7 flash flood. The reports record 19 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Boone County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716133. 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.