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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.

Gunn City within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Gunn 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.

YearPeople Change
2010118
202080-38 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

187 words on this township

History 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 2003

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation120273-05161-03102015-1447
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134493-05161-03012016-0505
11 February 2003Recreation and ceremony15 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 January 2015Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation117450-05161-01182015-1222

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2007Tornado (EF1)Gunn City$30,000Tornado 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 2023HailGunn City-Golf ball sized hail reported just east of Gunn City.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGunn City-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph near Gunn City.
June 2011Flash FloodGunn City-Highway 2 at Little Road was closed due to high water.
May 1997HailGunn 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 1997HailGunn City-Severe weather spotters reported golfball-size hail from severe thunderstorms at Gunn City and about 7 miles northeast of Pleasant Hill.
March 2015HailGunn City-no account filed
March 2014HailGunn City-no account filed
March 2014HailGunn City-no account filed
March 2014HailGunn City-no account filed
March 2009HailGunn City-no account filed
August 2003HailGunn City-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindGunn City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Hadsell2.5 miles13
Oviet (historical)3.1 miles13
East Lynne3.6 miles13
Wingate5.0 miles13
Cause Prairie (historical)5.5 miles13
Strasburg6.4 miles15
Garden City7.5 miles13
Daugherty7.7 miles14

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2549287The 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.