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Houstonia, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Houstonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65333. The Survey maps it on the Houstonia quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Houstonia within Pettis County

On record in Houstonia

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Houstonia fell from 220 to 198 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
2010220
2020198-22 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

10 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Houstonia in 2014, burning about 118 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
29 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Pettis 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 Houstonia: 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 - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houstonia in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 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
October 2004Tornado (F1)Houstonia$300,000Tornado crossed into Pettis county near the intersection of F/BB/NN Highways. Two homes were damaged along Blackwater Chapel Road. Trees and power lines also down. Tornado then tracked northeast to Highway 127 just south of NN...where a shed was destroyed and grain bins damaged. Tornado proceeded to enter Saline county just west of K Highway.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindHoustonia$5,000no account filed
August 2016Flash FloodHoustonia-Route T near Heaths Creek was flooding due to heavy rain.
March 2006Tornado (F2)Houstonia-Tornado touched down at 2007CST...5 miles west-northwest of Houstonia and moved into Saline county 3 miles west-northwest of Houstonia at 2009 CST. Tornado was over rural areas with no significant damage noted.
March 2006Tornado (F0)Houstonia-F0 tornado entered Pettis county from Johnson county at 2002 CST...8 miles southwest of Houstonia. The tornado was over rural areas before lifting at 2004 CST...6 miles west-southwest of Houstonia.
April 2001Flash FloodHoustonia-Law enforcement reported flooded roads in Houstonia.
May 2017HailHoustonia-no account filed
May 2017HailHoustonia-no account filed
April 2015HailHoustonia-no account filed
April 2015HailHoustonia-no account filed
April 2015HailHoustonia-no account filed
May 2003HailHoustonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
Tedieville4.8 miles23
Hughesville5.3 miles23
Stokley7.2 miles23
La Monte9.3 miles23
Longwood10.0 miles18
Dresden10.3 miles23
Newland11.6 miles18
Georgetown11.6 miles18

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 HoustoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952785The 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 719901. 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.