BlockCooter, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cooter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63839. The Survey maps it on the Steele quadrangle. 343 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 262 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCooter fell from 469 to 343 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 | 469 | |
| 2020 | 343 | -126 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1940 USGS Hayti quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Hayti quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Steele quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooter in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 deaths and 7 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2004 | Tornado (F2) | Cooter | 3 killed, 7 hurt, $300,000 | The tornado struck just south of Cooter and moved east. The tornado produced substantial damage to a farm house and a couple of modular homes. The tornado killed three persons who lived at the farm another injured seven others. A large grain trailer and several trees were blown over. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | $20,000 | Straight line winds knocked down two large trees in Cooter. A car and a fence were damaged. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | $10,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | $5,000 | Some power lines were knocked down. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Cooter | $5,000 | A tornado touched down west of Cooter and moved east. Several power lines were knocked down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Cooter | $1,000 | Several roads were covered by water between Cooter and Steele. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Cooter | $100 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cooter | $10 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | - | Measured 76 mph with numerous trees down. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Cooter | - | Quarter size hail fell on Interstate 55 at mile marker 4.4 causing one vehicle to wreck. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | - | Straight line winds knocked down a few trees in Cooter. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | - | Straight line winds knocked down large tree limbs in Cooter. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Cooter | - | Large amounts of quarter size hail fell on Interstate 40 near Steele. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cooter | - | Quarter to golf ball size hail fell in Cooter. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter | - | Winds were estimated between 60 and 70 mph southwest of Cooter. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cooter | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Cooter | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Steele | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Holland | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Holbert Corner | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Acorn Corner | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Tyler | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Hall (historical) | 4.0 miles | 9 |
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 Cooter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965790 | 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 716293. 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.
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.