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Hoberg, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hoberg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65712. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Hoberg within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Hoberg fell from 56 to 48 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
201056
202048-8 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hoberg between 1996 and 2020, burning about 112 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230726-05533-09252020-1816
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230711-05533-09212020-1519
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230801-05516-09122020-2005
10 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230800-05516-09102020-1850
28 August 2020Debris and open burning3.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220645-05533-08282020-1647
25 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 August 1996Arson/incendiarism16 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177403-05533-08112018-1825

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hoberg: 13 past producers, 8 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Lead. 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 - Barite & IronBarium-Barite, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Clay & IronIron, ClayPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoberg in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 WindHoberg$2,000Thunderstorms downed a limb and blocked the roadway near Hoberg.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindHoberg-Several large trees were reported down.
October 2019Heavy RainHoberg-The Mesonet station MOA21 at Mount Vernon reported 2.85 inches of rainfall.
February 2018FloodHoberg-There was a water rescue at a low water crossing on Lawrence County Road 2137 east of Lawrence County Road 2140 near Hoberg.
February 2018FloodHoberg-There was a water rescue at a low water crossing on Lawrence County Road 2137 east of Lawrence County Road 2140 near Hoberg.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHoberg-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees near Hoberg.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Mount Vernon2.8 miles17
Landrum3.6 miles17
Freistatt4.4 miles17
Opal5.3 miles17
Elliott5.7 miles19
Stotts City5.8 miles17
Gaither (historical)6.1 miles17
Orange7.2 miles19

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 HobergAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1863933The 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 719649. 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.