Gideon, Missouri

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Anderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63848. The Survey maps it on the Gideon quadrangle. 780 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Gideon within New Madrid County

Population over time

2 figures

Gideon fell from 1,093 to 780 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	1,093
2020	780	-313 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1940 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Gideon quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gideon in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gideon	$5,000,000	A very intense macroburst caused extensive damage across southwest New Madrid County, including the Gideon area. Peak winds were estimated near 110 mph, based on NWS storm surveys. About eight miles of the 19-mile long damage swath was in New Madrid County. Most of the remainder of the path was in Pemiscot County. The width of the macroburst averaged about six miles in New Madrid County. Several large grain bins were destroyed, with some blown a hundred yards or more from their anchored position. A couple of large storage buildings collapsed or partially collapsed. Several garages, farm sheds and similar structures were heavily damaged or destroyed. At least a half dozen homes or similar structures sustained major roof damage, ranging from the removal of the roof decking structure to removal of the entire roof structure. One had the attached garage separated. At least one home was destroyed by a fallen tree, with several others damaged from fallen trees. Several miles of power lines were blown down as poles were broken. Numerous large trees were uprooted. Much of the damage was in and south of Gideon. At least three homes and a business sustained major roof damage in Gideon, and a large farm building near Highway 162 lost portions of its roof and walls. The local emergency management agency estimated at least 5 million dollars damage, with 4 million of that at a farm south of Gideon.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gideon	$30,000	A line of severe thunderstorms produced damaging straight-line winds, mainly over southern parts of the county. At Boekerton, a roof was blown off a house, a barn was blown down, and there were several trees and power lines down. Power lines were down at Gideon, causing some extended power outages that lasted into the next day. A couple of trees were down at Portageville.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gideon	$12,000	A bedroom window was blown out. A power pole was down. Trees were blown down.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Gideon	$5,000	no account filed
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gideon	$2,000	A house sustained roof damage and some broken windows.
April 2007	Funnel Cloud	Gideon	-	Rotating funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter.
April 2006	Hail	Gideon	-	Hail averaging around 2 inches in diameter fell. The largest hailstones were slightly larger than baseballs, as reported by broadcast media.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Gideon	-	The brief tornado touchdown was reported by a trained spotter in open farmland.
May 2012	Hail	Gideon	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Gideon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Madrid 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Glendale	2.9 miles	8
Dunn	3.0 miles	8
Hartzell	4.1 miles	8
Baxter	4.1 miles	9
Frailie	5.9 miles	8
New Garver	6.4 miles	8
Tallapoosa	6.6 miles	9
Forest Spur	8.1 miles	9

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 Gideon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967644	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 718432. 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.

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.