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Gasconade, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65061. It stands on Gasconade River. The Survey maps it on the Gasconade quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Gasconade within Gasconade County

Population over time

2 figures

Gasconade fell from 223 to 172 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
2010223
2020172-51 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Gasconade between 2001 and 2018, burning about 762 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177030-03733-03042018-1535
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined686 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177029-03733-03042018-1837
27 March 2001Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 February 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gasconade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Gasconade: 20 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Des Peres Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zumsteg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zumsteg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Bergel Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Braudhorst PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
J.H.Brown PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gasconade County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gasconade in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindGasconade$10,000A large cottonwood tree was blown down onto a home just west of Gasconade. The home suffered moderate roof damage.
May 2007FloodGasconade$5,000The Missouri River flooded parts of the northern border of Gasconade County from Gasconade to Hermann. Two city parks in Hermann were flooded, otherwise flooding was limited to farmland along the river and to some roads near the river in the Hermann area.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindGasconade$200Several large trees were toppled by high wind.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGasconade-Thunderstorm winds blew over a large tree onto Highway J just southwest of intersection with Highway 100.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindGasconade-A phone line was blown down in Gasconade.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGasconade-Wind gusts estimated around 70 mph downed some trees in Gasconade.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGasconade-The County Sheriff reported trees down along Highway 100.
December 2002HailGasconade-Storm Spotters reported golfball size hail.
April 1995HailGasconade-Golf ball-size hail was reported across northern parts of the county.
June 2023HailGasconade-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGasconade-no account filed
April 2013HailGasconade-no account filed
April 2007HailGasconade-no account filed
April 2006HailGasconade-no account filed
April 2006HailGasconade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gasconade 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
Stolpe2.5 miles21
Morrison4.0 miles22
Fredericksburg6.1 miles21
Hermann6.9 miles22
Pershing7.0 miles21
Feigler Ferry7.8 miles21
Brown Shanty8.2 miles21
Swiss8.7 miles21

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 GasconadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956841The 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 729496. 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.