Frontenac, Missouri
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Missouri River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63131. It stands on Monsanto - Sunswept Creek. The Survey maps it on the Creve Coeur quadrangle. 3,612 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.
On record in Frontenac
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Des Peres Presbyterian Churchlisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresFrontenac grew from 3,482 to 3,612 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 | 3,482 | |
| 2020 | 3,612 | +130 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 22 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.
- 1933 USGS Creve Coeur quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS Creve Coeur quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Creve Coeur quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Frontenac in 2007, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Frontenac: 22 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamieson Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Creve Coeur Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fern Ridge Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kempf Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Osage Hills Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rock Hill Quarry | 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 |
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frontenac in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Frontenac | $20,000 | A brief and weak tornado touched down in St. Louis County near the city of Frontenac and moved north for just over a mile. The touchdown occurred 0.4 miles southwest of Frontenac and the tornado lifted 1 mile north of Frontenac. Damage caused by the tornado mainly consisted of downed trees and snapped limbs. Overall, the tornado was rated EF0 with a path length of 1.32 miles and a max path width of 50 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frontenac | $10,000 | A swath of damaging winds moved across the central portions of St. Louis County. Several trees were blown down N. Forty Drive just north of Frontenac. Also, several large tree limbs were blown down in Overland and St. Ann, as well as, Hazelwood. |
| August 2003 | Lightning | Frontenac | - | Lightning struck the clock tower at the Frontenac Hilton Hotel which caused a smoky fire in the roof. Guests were quickly evacuated from the second floor with no one injured. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Frontenac | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Frontenac | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Lake Park | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Huntleigh | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Westwood | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Creve Coeur | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Ladue | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Country Life Acres | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Des Peres | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Warson Woods | 2.6 miles | 22 |
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 Frontenac | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962635 | 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 756086. 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.








