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Herculaneum, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Joachim Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63048. It stands on Joachim Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herculaneum quadrangle. 4,672 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Herculaneum within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Herculaneum grew from 3,468 to 4,672 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
20103,468
20204,672+1,204 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

32 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Herculaneum between 2006 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources62220
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION PACIFIC
6 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesVAL 1
30 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources42918

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Herculaneum: 29 past producers, 9 producers, 2 plants. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
(Facility) Herculaneum SmelterLead, SmelterPlant
Crystal City Sand PlantSand and Gravel, Construction, SilicaProducer
Bailey MinesLeadPast Producer
Festus Pit & PlantSilicaPast Producer
Martin Marietta Sand PitSilicaProducer
McClenahan's MinesLeadPast Producer
Unimin MineSilicaProducer
Unimin PlantSilicaProducer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herculaneum in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 5 hail, 3 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
February 2000HailHerculaneum$20,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHerculaneum-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and power lines.
December 2010Thunderstorm WindHerculaneum-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs.
April 2011HailHerculaneum-no account filed
June 2010HailHerculaneum-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHerculaneum-no account filed
April 1998HailHerculaneum-no account filed
April 1998HailHerculaneum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Riverside1.3 miles25
Pevely1.3 miles25
Horine2.4 miles25
Bushburg2.6 miles25
Munsons2.7 miles25
Ludwig3.1 miles17
Crystal City3.3 miles17
Silica3.4 miles17

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 HerculaneumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961668The 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 719395. 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.