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Dudley, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Duck Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63936. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dudley quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 354 feet above sea level.

Dudley within Stoddard County

Population over time

2 figures

Dudley fell from 232 to 101 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
2010232
2020101-131 (-56%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Dudley between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
19 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176825-10395-04192018-1330
18 March 2019Debris and open burning1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178347-10395-03182019-1645
22 November 2018Debris and open burning5.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177983-10395-11222018-1740
5 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179445-10395-10052019-1535
13 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230919-10395-10132020-1735

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dudley: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dudley in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2009FloodDudley1 killedNear Bernie, a woman drowned when her vehicle hydroplaned off Highway U and into a water-filled drainage ditch. The car drifted downstream over 400 feet until it lodged on a large culvert. Two passers-by tried to rescue her as she exited the partially submerged vehicle, but the strong current swept her away. Elsewhere in the county, a few state roads were closed due to flooding, including sections of Routes O, T, U, and Z. Overflowing creeks prompted the closure of T Highway from Highway 51 to J Highway.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindDudley$300,000Scattered damage consisted of uprooted trees and broken tree limbs. Dozens of homes sustained loss of shingles or other minor damage. A barn was levelled. Numerous sheds were damaged or destroyed. A business in Puxico lost its roof. Windows were blown out, and a tree was snapped in half in Puxico. The damage path width was four miles. Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDudley$80,000At a farm just off U.S. Highway 60 near Dudley, several outbuildings and grain bins sustained extensive damage. An empty grain bin was blown a short distance. Other grain bins were unroofed. The metal roof on a large equipment shed was blown apart. Debris was strewn across several acres on the south side of the damage area. Trucks and other farm equipment were damaged by falling debris.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDudley$50,000Parked semi trailers were blown over. Wind gusts were estimated near 70 mph.
July 1997HailDudley$50,000A severe thunderstorm continued east from Butler County, producing a swath of large hail from Dudley to Dexter. A report of softball size hail was received from the Dudley area, where vehicles were damaged on U.S. 60. Golf ball hail occurred near Dexter.
April 2013Tornado (EF0)Dudley$40,000The tornado removed metal roofing and damaged rafters of at least four chicken houses. The debris was carried up to a mile or more. The average damage path width was about 40 yards. Peak winds were approximately 75 mph.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDudley$40,000Trees were blown down in a line from Dudley to east of Dexter. Some roof damage and power line damage occurred. Siding was ripped from a house along Route 153. Trees landed across a few roads, including Route 51, which was blocked for a time. A house about 3 miles south of Puxico was damaged by flying debris.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDudley$15,000Tree and power line damage reports were relayed to emergency management from Dudley and Bloomfield.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDudley$5,000Numerous large tree limbs were down.
March 2025HailDudley-Ping pong ball size hail fell along Highway 60 between Fisk and Dudley.
May 2024Flash FloodDudley-Flash flooding of U.S. 60 occurred east of Dudley. The heaviest rainfall rates during the evening occurred just to the north between Dudley and Bloomfield.
May 2021Flash FloodDudley-Water was over the roadway at County Road 659 and Highway ZZ southeast of Dudley. Swift water was flowing across Highway WW south of County Road 420. A few other roads in the county were flooded.
May 2016FloodDudley-Water was over two lanes of Highway 60 at the curve near the Butler County line.
March 2015FloodDudley-Route K was closed by flooding of the Castor River. Storm-total rainfall was 2.25 inches at Dudley.
December 2015Heavy RainDudley-The storm-total rainfall in Dudley since the 26th was 5.86 inches. Of that total, 2.70 inches fell since midnight on the 28th. Water was over portions of several roads, including U.S. Highway 60.
July 2014Heavy RainDudley-A trained spotter measured 1.04 inches of rain in 20 minutes.
September 2012Funnel CloudDudley-Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud between Dudley and Puxico.
April 2011Flash FloodDudley-In Dudley, a water rescue of a family was necessary. A 72-hour rainfall measurement of 7.80 inches was recorded at Dexter.
September 2006HailDudley-A swath of dime to quarter-size hail occurred from Dudley to Dexter.
April 2002Tornado (F0)Dudley-The supercell thunderstorm that spawned a long-track tornado over Butler and Carter Counties produced a brief, weak tornado very close to the Stoddard/Butler County line, just east of Fisk. No damage was reported.
February 2000HailDudley-Dime size hail was reported by sheriff deputies along U.S. Highway 60 near Dudley and near Acorn Ridge.
April 2021HailDudley-no account filed
July 2021HailDudley-no account filed
January 2012HailDudley-no account filed
April 2011HailDudley-no account filed
May 2005HailDudley-no account filed
July 2004HailDudley-no account filed
November 2002HailDudley-no account filed
April 2002HailDudley-no account filed
January 1999HailDudley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stoddard 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
Randol2.0 miles11
Stoddard3.1 miles11
Green Oaks3.8 miles11
Ives3.8 miles11
Redd4.4 miles11
Bradyville (historical)4.7 miles9
Pyletown5.9 miles9
Aid6.7 miles11

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 DudleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966752The 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 717148. 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.