Gunn City, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Index Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64747. It stands on Crawford Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Lynne quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGunn City fell from 118 to 80 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 | 118 | |
| 2020 | 80 | -38 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1887 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS East Lynne quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
187 words on this townshipHistory of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Index Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Index Township - 187 words.
Fires near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Gunn City between 2003 and 2017, burning about 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120273-05161-03102015-1447 |
| 1 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 134493-05161-03012016-0505 |
| 11 February 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 January 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 117450-05161-01182015-1222 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gunn City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gunn City in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Gunn City | $30,000 | Tornado touched down at 10:05 PM CST, 1 mile east of Gunn City. The EF1 tornado destroyed a moble home before exiting the county into Johnson county at 10:06 PM CST, 2 miles east northeast of Gunn City. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Gunn City | - | Golf ball sized hail reported just east of Gunn City. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gunn City | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph near Gunn City. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Gunn City | - | Highway 2 at Little Road was closed due to high water. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Gunn City | - | A second round of severe thunderstorms produced large hail over portions of Cass County. A HAM Radio operator reported golfball-size hail at Gunn City. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Gunn City | - | Severe weather spotters reported golfball-size hail from severe thunderstorms at Gunn City and about 7 miles northeast of Pleasant Hill. |
| March 2015 | Hail | Gunn City | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Gunn City | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Gunn City | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Gunn City | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Gunn City | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Gunn City | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gunn City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hadsell | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Oviet (historical) | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| East Lynne | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Wingate | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Cause Prairie (historical) | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Strasburg | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Garden City | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Daugherty | 7.7 miles | 14 |
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 Gunn City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2549287 | 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 718933. 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.








