Hunnewell, Missouri
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63443. The Survey maps it on the Hunnewell quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHunnewell fell from 184 to 139 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 | 184 | |
| 2020 | 139 | -45 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1903 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hunnewell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hunnewell between 1997 and 2019, burning about 201 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 101 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176812-10243-04192018-1936 |
| 17 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176814-10243-04172018-2010 |
| 12 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 9.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178575-10243-04122019-1130 |
| 8 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176754-10243-03042018-0906 |
| 22 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hunnewell: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cluskey Pottery Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Huggins Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Williamson Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunnewell in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2005 | Lightning | Hunnewell | 2 killed, 1 hurt | Two men were killed and one injured by a lightning strike west of Hunnewell. The 3 men were doing road work near the bridge over the North Fork of the Salt River when the storm approached. They took shelter in a nearby shed, and when the storm appeared to let up, they headed for their vehicle. They were struck within a few feet of the vehicle. The men who died were killed instantly. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Hunnewell | - | Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 36 east of Lakenan near the North Fork of the Salt River. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunnewell | - | Storm spotters reported a shed blown down by thunderstorm winds along Highway Z. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hunnewell | - | Storm spotters reported pea size hail clumped together to the size of golfballs. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Hunnewell | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Hunnewell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kendall | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lakenan | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Oakdale | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Emden | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Shelbina | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Walkersville | 12.0 miles | 9 | |
| Shelbyville | 13.5 miles | 9 | |
| Burksville | 13.7 miles | 10 |
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 Hunnewell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954971 | 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 719996. 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.




