Josephville, Missouri
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Wentzville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63385. It stands on Silver Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wentzville quadrangle. 512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJosephville grew from 376 to 512 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 | 376 | |
| 2020 | 512 | +136 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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 O'Fallon quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Wentzville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Wentzville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 2000 USGS Wentzville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Josephville between 2005 and 2008, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 31 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 31 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Josephville: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'Fallon Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Josephville in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Hail | Josephville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villages at Stonegate | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Gilmore | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Enon | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Highland Estates | 2.8 miles | 24 | |
| Saint Paul | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Lake Saint Louis | 3.2 miles | 24 | |
| Flint Hill | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Timber Trace | 3.6 miles | 24 |
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 Josephville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2434612 | 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 756234. 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.











