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Georgetown, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65301. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaman quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Georgetown within Pettis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 25 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Iron. 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
Bothwell Barite MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Carpenter BankIronPast Producer
Bradford Quarry No 2 & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dresden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eckles QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jenkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcenroe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rader QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Downed tree limbs and wires near Route H north of Sedalia.
May 2012HailGeorgetown-Quarter size hail was reported near the intersection of Mt. Hermon Road and Highway 65. The hail accumulated as deep as 4 inches.

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
Sedalia3.8 miles22
Newland4.9 miles18
Dresden5.2 miles23
Beaman5.5 miles18
Hughesville6.3 miles23
Smithton9.4 miles18
La Monte10.0 miles23
Longwood10.3 miles18

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 GeorgetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5546949The 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 718403. 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.

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.