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Dawn, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Blue Mound Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64638. It stands on Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Utica West quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Dawn within Livingston County

Population over time

2 figures

Dawn fell from 128 to 100 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
2010128
2020100-28 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

475 words on this township

Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Blue Mound Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Congressional township 56-24, south of Shoal creek and an irregular tract of land of some six hundred acres, lying in the angle between Shoal creek and Clear creek, constitutes what is familiarly called Mound township. The greater por- tion of this township is the finest and most productive agricultural land in the county, while the Shoal creek bottoms afford luxuriant pasturage and thousands of tons of wild grass are cured and marketed annually. A majority of the residents of this township are Welsh or of Welsh descent. They are thrifty, prosperous people. In addition to Shoal creek, which forms part of the northern boundary of the township, Brush creek and Clear creek are the other principal streams. The first settlers located in this township in 1835, although the land was not subject to entry until the year following. Among those who made entries were William Mann, Nathan McCarthy, Alfred Reeves, Henry Walker, Jacob Stauffer, Josiah Whitney, B. F. Baker, Jesse Reeves, Joseph Knox, Orland H. Clififord, Elijah Preston and others. As referred to elsewhere William Mann was captain of a militia company and was engaged in the Mormon war at Haun's Mill and at other points in this section of Missouri. A very destructive storm visited this township on the night of June 20, 1883, in which four persons were killed, Edward D. James, Mrs. John Glick, and Jack Wilson and wife, while John Glick and child, a child of Jack Wilson, Wm. Barret, wife and three children, Mrs. J. B. Dusenberry, Jack and Susan Dusenberry, Wm. Pugh, John E. Hughes, wife and child, Wm. J. Hughes and wife, Mrs. Cunningham, Bert Snyder, Rev. Robert Evans, a son of Morris Davis, Mrs. Morgan Hughes and M. J. Williams of Utica were injured. Thirty-seven houses were wrecked and many partially destroyed; also one hundred and forty-one head of stock killed. The damage was estimated at about sixty-five thousand dollars. The town of Dawn in this township was laid out in 1853, although the location of Josiah Whitney's mill on the bank of Shoal creek was built in 1837 and as early as 1840 a small store was doing business there. The town was platted by Wm. Hixon.

Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.

is located two miles southeast of Dawn, and was organized March 8, 1881. The first members were: William Griffiths and wife, Joshua Williams, David D. Owens, Daniel J. Daves, Elizabeth Daves, Thomas J. Powell, Jane Powell, David P. Williams, Mrs. J. Williams, Thomas Griffiths, Isaac Jones, Samuel Jones, Mrs. Jones, J. D. Evans, Catherine Evans, David Hughes, Catherine Hughes and D. O. Hughes.

Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Blue Mound Township.

Fires near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Dawn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 428 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
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
9 July 1997Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 May 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burning32 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190418-05974-04082020-1410
7 April 2002Smoking20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2014Smoking20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190340-05974-03082020-2050

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dawn: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blue Mound Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawn in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDawn$100Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, with roof shingles blown off a home.
May 2019HailDawn-This stone measured and reported by the PSU field project.
April 2017FloodDawn-State Route C was closed due to flooding along Shoal Creek.
May 2019HailDawn-no account filed
May 2007HailDawn-no account filed
June 2005HailDawn-no account filed
June 2005HailDawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Ludlow3.7 miles13
Blue Mound5.0 miles13
Utica5.2 miles13
Mooresville6.9 miles13
Cleary7.6 miles13
Cavendish7.8 miles15
Corner Campbell School8.5 miles15
Chillicothe9.8 miles12

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 DawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459244The 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 716744. 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.