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Crystal City, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in River View Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63019. It stands on Plattin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Festus quadrangle. 4,740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Crystal City within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Crystal City fell from 4,855 to 4,740 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
20104,855
20204,740-115 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Crystal City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources62220
9 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178419-05039-04022019-1627
14 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Crystal City: 25 past producers, 9 producers, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Silica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Herculaneum SmelterLead, SmelterPlant
Crystal City Sand PlantSand and Gravel, Construction, SilicaProducer
Selma Quarry Ls & Ss & PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Festus Pit & PlantSilicaPast Producer
Martin Marietta Sand PitSilicaProducer
Unimin MineSilicaProducer
Unimin PlantSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal City in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 1994Tornado (F0)Crystal City$5,000A small tornado touched down briefly damaging a small area of power poles and trees.
March 2025HailCrystal City-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindCrystal City-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCrystal City-no account filed
May 2003Flash FloodCrystal City-no account filed
April 1998HailCrystal City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Festus0.9 miles17
Ludwig2.3 miles17
Silica2.7 miles17
Bailey2.8 miles17
Herculaneum3.3 miles25
Munsons3.3 miles25
Horine4.0 miles25
Donnell4.3 miles17

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 Crystal CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963485The 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 736291. 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.