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Cottleville, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dardenne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63304. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weldon Spring quadrangle. 5,611 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Cottleville within St. Charles County

Population over time

2 figures

Cottleville grew from 3,075 to 5,611 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
20103,075
20205,611+2,536 (+82%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

52 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cottleville between 2006 and 2017, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3

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
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Charles County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cottleville: 5 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Weldon Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Charles County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottleville in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind. 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 2001HailCottleville$50,000,000no account filed
May 2025HailCottleville-The caller also reported estimated 60 mph winds with the hail.
May 2025HailCottleville-A photo of the hail was provided by Spectrum News.
May 2025HailCottleville-The photo of the hailstone was received via social media.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple tree limbs on Parkwood Drive. In the Park Charles neighborhood, thunderstorm winds caused lots of damage to trees and knocked out the power.
April 2024HailCottleville-Reports of 1 inch hailstones in Weldon Spring, Harvester, and St. Charles.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree limb.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs in St. Peters and Harvester areas.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree branch and two large trees.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs. Also, a tree was blown over onto a home in St. Peters causing minor damage.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCottleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree. Part of the tree fell onto a house causing moderate damage.
April 2026HailCottleville-no account filed
April 2026HailCottleville-no account filed
April 2026HailCottleville-no account filed
May 2025HailCottleville-no account filed
May 2025HailCottleville-no account filed
May 2025HailCottleville-no account filed
May 2025HailCottleville-no account filed
May 2025HailCottleville-no account filed
April 2014HailCottleville-no account filed
June 2012HailCottleville-no account filed
June 2011HailCottleville-no account filed
April 2011HailCottleville-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCottleville-no account filed
July 2006HailCottleville-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCottleville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCottleville-no account filed
June 1996HailCottleville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Charles 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
All Saints Village1.1 miles29
Howell2.3 miles26
Weldon Spring2.9 miles25
Weldon Spring Heights3.3 miles25
Weldon3.9 miles25
Jacobs3.9 miles26
Harvester3.9 miles26
Saint Peters4.0 miles29

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 CottlevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969004The 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 755933. 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.