Keytesville, Missouri
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Keytesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65261. The Survey maps it on the Keytesville quadrangle. 440 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.
On record in Keytesville
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
Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residencelisted 1997
First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1977
Redding-Hill Houselisted 1969
Population over time
2 figuresKeytesville fell from 471 to 440 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 | 471 | |
| 2020 | 440 | -31 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1890 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Keytesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Keytesville between 1997 and 2014, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 November 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 January 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Keytesville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 - S+G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keytesville in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Hail | Keytesville | $3,000 | Quarter size hail dented cars south of Keytesville. |
| December 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | $1,000 | Trees and power lines reported down by the public. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Keytesville | - | A supercell produced 1.25 hail in Keytesville in Chariton County. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | - | Estimated 60 mph winds in Keytesville. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | - | Multiple trees and power lines were down along Highway 24 between Keytesville and Salisbury. Also a grain bin was blown over and a shed roof was blown off along Highway 24. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | - | A tree of unknown size and condition was down on a house near Keytesville. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Keytesville | - | Water was flowing over Highway 24. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Keytesville | - | Highway 24 was reported to be down to one lane, due to high water. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | - | Law enforcement officials estimated winds at 60 mph. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Keytesville | - | Golfball-size hail was reported in Keytesville by a local radio station. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Keytesville | - | Dime-size hail was reported by the public during a severe thunderstorm 5 miles north of Keytesville |
| May 2008 | Hail | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keytesville | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Keytesville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Eccles | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Chraneville (historical) | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Rockford | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Shannondale | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Salisbury | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Indian Grove | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Oil City | 7.8 miles | 15 |
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 Keytesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957297 | 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 720566. 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.






