Kissee Mills, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65680. It stands on Winkle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forsyth quadrangle. 1,023 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKissee Mills fell from 1,109 to 1,023 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 | 1,109 | |
| 2020 | 1,023 | -86 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1907 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Table Rock Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
50 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Kissee Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230941-10603-09262020-1135 |
| 26 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178259-10604-09262018-1503 |
| 14 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230939-10603-09142020-1230 |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179441-10604-08092019-1940 |
| 31 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 251307-10604-08312020-2019 |
| 5 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179440-10604-07052019-0907 |
| 4 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kissee Mills: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - S+G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kissee Mills in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kissee Mills | $10,000 | Several trees and large limbs were reported down. A small solar panel array suffered minor damage. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Kissee Mills | - | Quarter sized hail was reported MPing. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kissee Mills | - | Multiple trees were reported down in the Kissee Mills area. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Kissee Mills | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Highway 76 near the River Church. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kissee Mills | - | A large oak tree was uprooted. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kissee Mills | - | The fire department estimated 70 mph wind gusts. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Kissee Mills | - | Excessive rainfall caused flooding over a section of Highway 160 east of Kissee Mills. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Kissee Mills | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kissee Mills | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Kissee Mills | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McFarland (historical) | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Dickens | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Forsyth | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Shepherd of the Hills Estates | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hilda | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Taneyville | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Mildred | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Powersite | 4.2 miles | 14 |
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 Kissee Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459217 | 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 750624. 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.









