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Edgerton, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Preston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64444. It stands on Mitchell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle. 601 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Edgerton within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgerton grew from 546 to 601 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
2010546
2020601+55 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Edgerton in 1996, burning about 5 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 burning1

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 August 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Edgerton: 16 past producers. None of them 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
Blankenship QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Boydston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Everett & Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harvant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hillix QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgerton in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 11 hail, 7 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2004Flash FloodEdgerton$100,000Bridge washed out on Edgerton Junction Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$20,000There were several tree limbs and at least one tree down in the Edgerton area. One of these tree limbs fell on the roof of a home and punctured through the roof and ceiling. There were no reported injuries.
April 2016Flash FloodEdgerton-Water was running over a bridge at Grove Creek and B Highway near Edgerton, Missouri.
July 2015Flash FloodEdgerton-A photo showed water from Grove Creek flowing over Clark Avenue.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Tree blown down on house...minor shingle damage.
May 2004Flash FloodEdgerton-Fry Road and Ball Knob Road closed due to high water.
July 2004Flash FloodEdgerton-Highway B closed due to heavy rains of up to 3.5 inches.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Edgerton-Brief tornado touchdown in field along Z highway near I-29. Reported sheriffs office spotter.
June 2001Flash FloodEdgerton-Heavy rains up to 5 inches fell over the area, resulting in several roads and highways being closed.
June 2001Flash FloodEdgerton-Flooding continues to close roads at: Edgerton Junction...E Hwy at Skinners bridge...B Hwy and KK Hwy...Unionville Rd...92 Hwy at Todd Creek and at Second Creek.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-The Platte County Sheriff's Office reported downed trees at Edgerton as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2017HailEdgerton-no account filed
April 2016HailEdgerton-no account filed
April 2010HailEdgerton-no account filed
May 2010HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2010HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2004HailEdgerton-no account filed
April 2003HailEdgerton-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-no account filed
May 2001HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2001HailEdgerton-no account filed
May 2000HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2000HailEdgerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Edgerton Junction2.9 miles36
Ridgely3.4 miles36
Camden Point6.8 miles36
Dearborn7.3 miles18
Stubbs8.3 miles44
New Market8.8 miles18
Haydite9.0 miles44
Kerrville9.3 miles36

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 EdgertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963645The 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 717400. 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.