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Hopkins, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hopkins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64461. It stands on Middle Fork One Hundred and Two River. The Survey maps it on the Hopkins quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Hopkins within Nodaway County

Population over time

2 figures

Hopkins fell from 532 to 472 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
2010532
2020472-60 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

470 words on this township

Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Hopkins Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Hopkins, the only trading place within the township bearing the same name, and which was named after A. L. Hopkins, then superintendent of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, is situated a half mile to the east of the East fork of the One Hundred and Two river. It dates its platting from 1870 and its survey was completed in the spring of 1871. William Brady, of Jefferson township, executed the survey of the town plat. The company that platted the place was composed of Roseberry & Morehouse, the railroad company, Colonel Strong, of St. Joseph, and S. Mc¬ Farland.

Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.

The town of Hopkins was incorporated October 21, 1872. and the first board of trustees was composed of W. W. Kennison, chairman, Judge E. Dunlin, William H. Cochrane and B. S. Martin. The first building erected was a boarding house built by Thomas Gladman. The pioneer firm was Donlin Brothers, who began business in 1871. Porter, Girard & Hughes erected a drug store in 1871. The first dry goods were handled by Mr. Robinson, who erected a suitable store building.

Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.

In 1871 William R. Johnston built the Johnston House, on Roseberry street, and commenced keeping a good hotel. About the same date Mr. Crouch built the Hopkins House, but sold out to David Bender. Still later the Central House was opened by a Mr. Kinson. Plants Brothers established the first banking house.

Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Hopkins Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hopkins: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Hopkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nodaway County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopkins in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHopkins$50,000Several farm buildings were blown down, including a hog confinement building and machine shed.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHopkins$10,000Several garage doors were blown in on large metal buildings.
May 2002HailHopkins$5,000Hail damage to several cars.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHopkins$5,000Several trees uprooted and there was minor roof damage reported.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHopkins$2,000Power lines down.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Hopkins-NWS storm survey confirms a brief EF-1 tornado occurred around 9 AM local time west of Hopkins. The tornado damaged structures at two properties along State Highway FF.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindHopkins-Several reports of trees down in northern portions of Nodaway County.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHopkins-Damage to a fence was done by a large tree that fell on it. This report was received via social media.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindHopkins-Large tree limbs were reported down with thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindHopkins-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2008Flash FloodHopkins-Water was reported draining off of fields and flowing onto Highway 148 just north of Hopkins.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHopkins-Broken tree limbs up to six inches in diameter.
August 2007Flash FloodHopkins-Water over Highway JJ between Jade Road and Highway FF.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHopkins-A flag pole was bent over by thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph, and tree limbs over a foot in diameter were downed. Part of a maple tree fell on a house and caused unspecified damage.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHopkins-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree two feet in diameter.
June 1998HailHopkins-Dime-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm a mile south of Hopkins.
April 2023HailHopkins-no account filed
May 2022HailHopkins-no account filed
April 2017HailHopkins-no account filed
August 2015HailHopkins-no account filed
August 2015HailHopkins-no account filed
June 2015HailHopkins-no account filed
June 2014HailHopkins-no account filed
June 2014HailHopkins-no account filed
April 2011HailHopkins-no account filed
August 2009HailHopkins-no account filed
August 2009HailHopkins-no account filed
June 2008HailHopkins-no account filed
May 2007HailHopkins-no account filed
May 2006HailHopkins-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHopkins-no account filed
June 2004HailHopkins-no account filed
April 2002HailHopkins-no account filed
May 2002HailHopkins-no account filed
June 2002HailHopkins-no account filed
June 2001HailHopkins-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHopkins-no account filed
February 2000HailHopkins-no account filed
April 1999HailHopkins-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindHopkins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nodaway 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
Allison6.1 miles12
Pickering7.0 miles11
Gaynor7.3 miles11
Orrsburg9.8 miles11
Clearmont11.6 miles12
Parnell12.9 miles11
Wilcox13.1 miles11
Roseberry14.1 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 HopkinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965823The 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 719816. 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.

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.