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Desloge, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63601. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flat River quadrangle. 4,823 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Desloge within St. Francois County

Population over time

2 figures

Desloge fell from 5,054 to 4,823 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
20105,054
20204,823-231 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Desloge between 1992 and 2013, burning about 135 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
28 April 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1993Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1992Natural3.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
22 March 1994Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 1994Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 March 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Desloge: 86 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Bonne TerreLead, Copper, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1821
Bonne Terre MillDolomiteProducer
Bonne Terre MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1864, 1868
Bonne Terre Quarry and MillMagnesiteProducer
Flat River Sub-DistrictLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1742
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Clay KaolinKaolinPast Producer
Desloge MinesLead, CopperProducer1801
Flat RiverLead, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1890
Hazel Run MinesLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francois County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Desloge in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1994HailDesloge$5,000Golf ball-size hail was reported at two area radio stations. Large hail was also reported in Park Hills.
July 2006HailDesloge-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindDesloge-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDesloge-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDesloge-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDesloge-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDesloge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Francois 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
Cantwell0.8 miles21
Highley Heights0.9 miles21
Fairview Acres0.9 miles21
Saint Francois1.1 miles21
Park Hills1.2 miles21
Flat River1.5 miles21
Rivermines1.6 miles21
Gumbo2.0 miles21

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 DeslogeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963845The 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 755987. 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.