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.
Population over time
2 figuresExeter 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 772 | |
| 2020 | 733 | -39 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Cassville quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS Cassville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Cassville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Exeter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Table Rock Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
60 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177594-00505-08022018-2021 |
| 20 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220582-00514-07202020-1637 |
| 12 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220581-00514-07122020-1420 |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177665-00514-07122018-1402 |
| 18 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177664-00514-06182018-1352 |
| 7 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 May 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ss | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | Exeter | 1 killed, 4 hurt, $575,000 | An 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | 4 hurt, $500,000 | no account filed |
| November 2001 | Tornado (F2) | Exeter | 3 hurt, $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Exeter | $1,000,000 | Several 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $19,000 | Power 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 2010 | Hail | Exeter | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $2,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Exeter area. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $500 | Report of broken tree limbs that were 1 inch in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $500 | Report of broken tree limbs that were 3 inches in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Exeter | - | Report of quarter size hail. |
| February 2022 | Hail | Exeter | - | Penny sized hail was reported. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Exeter | - | Flash flooding was reported in Exeter along Farm Road 1075. The report was received via social media. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Exeter | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall of 3.25 inches of rainfall was measured near Exeter. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Exeter | - | In Exeter, 5.00 inches of rainfall was reported in the last 24 hours. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| October 2009 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cassville | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Pasley | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Ridgley | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Thompsons Corner | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hilltop | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| El Paso (historical) | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Butterfield | 5.7 miles | 11 |
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 Exeter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957165 | The 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.










