High Hill, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63350. The Survey maps it on the New Florence quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.
On record in High Hill
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Farmers Mercantile Co. Buildinglisted 2004
High Hill Schoollisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresHigh Hill fell from 195 to 186 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 | 195 | |
| 2020 | 186 | -9 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1890 USGS Hermann quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS New Florence quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS New Florence quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS New Florence quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of High Hill between 1997 and 2018, burning about 152 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 112 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 135858-07034-04142016-1653 |
| 7 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 February 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176054-07003-02232018-1845 |
| 19 February 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 129 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 129 workings within 5 miles of High Hill: 128 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Minerals Processing Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown - Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| J.S.Heady Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ammann Pits | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Hill in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Hail | High Hill | - | Hail up to golfball sized was reported along Interstate 70 in High Hill, MO. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | High Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines, causing a transformer to blow about a mile southeast of High Hill. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | High Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped off a power pole in town. |
| April 2015 | Hail | High Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | High Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | High Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Florence | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Jonesburg | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Prices Branch | 5.6 miles | 20 | |
| Big Spring | 7.2 miles | 21 | |
| Danville | 8.3 miles | 21 | |
| Bellflower | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Montgomery City | 9.4 miles | 21 | |
| Mineola | 10.0 miles | 21 |
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 High Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2146666 | 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 719521. 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.









