Glenwood, Missouri
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Glenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63541. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGlenwood fell from 196 to 181 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 | 196 | |
| 2020 | 181 | -15 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 2002 and 2014, burning about 189 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 May 2014 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 140 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | LANCASTER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glenwood: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenwood | $50,000 | Roofs blown off a post office and American Legion buildings. Trees and telephone lines also down. |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenwood | $50,000 | The county sheriff reported two damaged garages in Glenwood. A television weatherman from KTVO in Kirksville reported several signs blown down and a mobile home flipped over at Lancaster. Time was estimated. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Glenwood | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported in NW Schuyler County. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenwood | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Glenwood | - | Portion of a road near Glenwood washed out due to flash flooding. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Glenwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Junction | 1.1 miles | 7 | |
| Lancaster | 2.6 miles | 7 | |
| Julesburg | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Coatsville | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Guinn | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Queen City | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Clifton | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Germania | 8.0 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 Glenwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2251542 | 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 718522. 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.




