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King City, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64463. The Survey maps it on the King City quadrangle. 799 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

King City within Gentry County

On record in King City

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

King City fell from 1,013 to 799 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
20101,013
2020799-214 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of King City in 2005, burning about 700 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/undetermined1

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
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresMissouri Department of ConservationKING CITY

Every fire recorded in Gentry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of King City: 14 past producers, 2 unknowns. 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
Maynes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Gentry County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names King City in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKing City$4,000Several power poles were blown over in King city. A truck was also overturned. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindKing City$4,000Severe thunderstorms moved through the county, producing wind gusts up to 60 mph in the King City area. Numerous power outages were reported.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKing City$2,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. Minor damage was reported at the Willcross Seed building in King City.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Power lines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Trees and power lines downed.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Power lines downed.
July 2020Flash FloodKing City-Highway 169 just south of King City was closed due to water over the road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKing City-Parts of trees and pole barns strewn along Highway 48 west of King City.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKing City-Power lines downed.
March 2012HailKing City-no account filed
May 2011HailKing City-no account filed
March 2011HailKing City-no account filed
June 2009HailKing City-no account filed
June 2009HailKing City-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKing City-no account filed
May 2004HailKing City-no account filed
April 2003HailKing City-no account filed
April 2003HailKing City-no account filed
June 2001HailKing City-no account filed
May 1996HailKing City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gentry 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
Ford City5.2 miles12
Douglas5.3 miles13
Island City7.0 miles13
Berlin9.2 miles12
Gentryville11.1 miles12
Stanberry11.5 miles13
McCurry12.0 miles12
Mount Pleasant12.2 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 King CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953366The 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 720609. 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.