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Exeter, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Exeter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65647. The Survey maps it on the Exeter quadrangle. 733 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Exeter within Barry County

Population over time

2 figures

Exeter fell from 772 to 733 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
2010772
2020733-39 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 12 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Exeter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
5 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177594-00505-08022018-2021
20 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220582-00514-07202020-1637
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220581-00514-07122020-1420
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177665-00514-07122018-1402
18 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use7.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177664-00514-06182018-1352
7 May 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 May 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 Exeter: 7 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exeter in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 11 injuries. 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
February 2012Tornado (EF2)Exeter1 killed, 4 hurt, $575,000An EF-2 rated tornado with a maximum wind speed of 120 mph tracked across northwestern portions of the city of Cassville. The tornado destroyed four mobile homes and one frame home. Another frame home was significantly damaged. This tornado also flipped over a tractor trailer as it crossed Highway 37. The tornado killed one person in a mobile home. There were four other injuries.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindExeter4 hurt, $500,000no account filed
November 2001Tornado (F2)Exeter3 hurt, $1,000,000no account filed
April 2017Flash FloodExeter$1,000,000Several homes and business sustained flood damage across Barry County. Numerous roads and bridges were severely damaged or washed away across the county. This report will contain the total dollar estimate for flood damage to infrastructure, businesses, and homes across Barry County.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindExeter$40,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindExeter$19,000Power poles and trees were reported down west of Cassville and Butterfield in Barry County. These winds continued to cause damage to trees extending east and southeast through Shell Knob, Roaring River and Eagle Rock.
April 2010HailExeter$10,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindExeter$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Exeter area.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindExeter$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindExeter$500Report of broken tree limbs that were 1 inch in diameter.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindExeter$500Report of broken tree limbs that were 3 inches in diameter.
May 2024HailExeter-Report of quarter size hail.
February 2022HailExeter-Penny sized hail was reported.
June 2019Flash FloodExeter-Flash flooding was reported in Exeter along Farm Road 1075. The report was received via social media.
April 2017Heavy RainExeter-A 24 hour storm total rainfall of 3.25 inches of rainfall was measured near Exeter.
June 2015Heavy RainExeter-In Exeter, 5.00 inches of rainfall was reported in the last 24 hours.
May 2017HailExeter-no account filed
May 2017HailExeter-no account filed
October 2009HailExeter-no account filed
May 2002HailExeter-no account filed
April 1999HailExeter-no account filed
June 1996HailExeter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Wayne2.6 miles12
Cassville3.8 miles13
Pasley4.1 miles12
Ridgley4.5 miles14
Thompsons Corner4.6 miles13
Hilltop4.7 miles13
El Paso (historical)5.2 miles14
Butterfield5.7 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 ExeterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957165The 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 717713. 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.