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De Witt, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in De Witt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64639. It stands on Wakenda Chute. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick West quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

De Witt within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

De Witt fell from 124 to 83 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
2010124
202083-41 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

1,242 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on De Witt Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 De Witt Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of De Witt between 1992 and 2018, burning about 117 acres 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176545-01749-03042018-1836
8 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176254-01749-02082018-1103
1 February 1992Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of De Witt: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Lautenslager QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Malan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Miami Quarry #34 & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zarah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Witt in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 3 hail, 1 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDe Witt$3,000Trees and power lines reported down as a result of thunderstorm winds over Northern Carroll County.
May 2001HailDe Witt-Public reported 12 inch diameter tree blown down and 3/4 inch hail.
April 2008HailDe Witt-no account filed
October 1998HailDe Witt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
White Rock4.8 miles16
Leta5.8 miles16
Milford8.0 miles18
Bosworth8.4 miles18
Wakenda9.6 miles18
Standish11.0 miles17
Little Compton13.1 miles17
Carrollton14.7 miles18

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 De WittAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953036The 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 716763. 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.