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Green Castle, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63544. The Survey maps it on the Green City quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Green Castle within Sullivan County

Population over time

2 figures

Green Castle fell from 275 to 224 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
2010275
2020224-51 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Green Castle in 1992, burning about 16 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 burning3

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
30 January 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 January 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 January 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Castle: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Castle in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 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 WindGreen Castle-Downed wires near Lincoln Street in Greencastle.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGreen Castle-A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGreen Castle-Four inch tree limbs were torn out a tree.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGreen Castle-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, with tree limbs reported down, along with a power outage.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindGreen Castle-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGreen Castle-Numerous tree limbs were blown down by winds estimated to 65 mph.
March 2011HailGreen Castle-no account filed
March 2011HailGreen Castle-no account filed
March 2009HailGreen Castle-no account filed
March 2009HailGreen Castle-no account filed
April 2007HailGreen Castle-no account filed
April 2001HailGreen Castle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Green City4.0 miles11
Sticklerville7.1 miles7
Brown (historical)7.7 miles11
Pennville7.8 miles11
Mystic7.9 miles7
Sorrell8.2 miles8
Owasco10.1 miles7
Boynton11.0 miles7

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 Green CastleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962776The 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 735634. 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.