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Hunter, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63943. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hunter within Carter County

Population over time

2 figures

Hunter fell from 168 to 95 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
2010168
202095-73 (-43%)

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.

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hunter between 1992 and 2017, burning about 580 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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 burning18
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
19 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark National Scenic RiverKELLY
5 April 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1997Debris and open burning14 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 April 2005Debris and open burning12 acresMark Twain National ForestAFTERNOON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hunter: 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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
Mayes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownManganesePast Producer
UnknownManganesePast Producer
Mine # 21IronProspect
Tract # 17IronProspect
Tract # 2IronOccurrence
Tract # 20IronPast Producer
Tract # 24IronOccurrence
Tract # 25IronUnknown
Tract # 26IronProspect

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 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
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHunter$50,000Numerous trees were blown down throughout the Current River Valley in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Some trees were blocking access roads.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHunter$8,000Large tree limbs were down, and one tree was snapped.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindHunter$6,000Numerous trees were blown down.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Hunter$2,000A few trees and tree limbs were downed along Highway E near the Current River. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHunter$1,000A large live oak tree was blown down on Highway 21.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindHunter$1,000A large picture window was blown out of a residence.
September 2025FloodHunter-Flooding issues developed in Southeastern Carter County between Ellsinore and Grandin as early and late morning rounds of heavy rainfall combined to result in a radar estimated 2.5-5 inches of rainfall over the area.
May 2018Funnel CloudHunter-The funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter.
March 2017Funnel CloudHunter-The funnel cloud was reported by the public. This tornadic storm later produced a tornado in northern Butler County northwest and north of Poplar Bluff.
May 2017HailHunter-A swath of large hail extended from west to east across parts of the county. Quarter-size hail was reported on Highway 21 near U.S. Highway 60, between Hunter and Ellsinore. Quarter-size hail occurred on U.S. Highway 60 near Ellsinore.
June 2009Funnel CloudHunter-This funnel cloud was associated with a long-lived rotating wall cloud that later tracked across the Ellsinore area.
September 2022HailHunter-no account filed
March 2020HailHunter-no account filed
June 2019HailHunter-no account filed
April 2007HailHunter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Crites Corner4.4 miles11
Grandin4.5 miles11
Chilton4.8 miles12
Ellsinore6.2 miles13
Homestead (historical)8.5 miles14
Eastwood9.7 miles13
Barren (historical)9.8 miles15
Chicopee10.6 miles13

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 HunterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459746The 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 750422. 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.