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Edgar Springs, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65462. The Survey maps it on the Edgar Springs quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Edgar Springs within Phelps County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgar Springs fell from 208 to 199 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
2010208
2020199-9 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Edgar Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,703 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2

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
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 May 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1994Arson/incendiarism34 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135519-03322-04032016-1918
3 April 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National ForestTURKEY PILOT
3 April 2011Arson/incendiarism243 acresMark Twain National ForestDARK BOTTOM HOLLOW
12 April 2019Debris and open burning14 acresMark Twain National ForestBRADFORD
11 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Edgar Springs: 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mont. Rouge MineIronPast Producer
Ozark MineIronProspect

Every working recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgar Springs in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 1993Thunderstorm WindEdgar Springs$500,000Numerous trees were uprooted and buildings demolished by high wind gusts. A 96-foot greenhouse, three barns, a wellhouse, several windows, and fences were heavily damaged on one farm. A mobile home and two out-buildings were also damaged at a second location. Reported by the county sheriff office and a county newspaper.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEdgar Springs$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailEdgar Springs-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindEdgar Springs-no account filed
October 1996HailEdgar Springs-no account filed
July 1996HailEdgar Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Flat4.3 miles19
Craddock4.6 miles19
Beulah6.2 miles20
Yancy Mills6.2 miles26
Duke8.2 miles23
Blooming Rose8.5 miles20
Spring Creek9.3 miles22
Vida11.1 miles26

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 Edgar SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965599The 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 749801. 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.