Knob Noster, Missouri

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 6 records

• Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area Bridgelisted 1985
• Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area Dam and Spillwaylisted 1985
• Montserrat Recreational Demonstration Area Rock Bath Houselisted 1985
• Camp Shawnee Historic Districtlisted 1985
• Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area Entrance Portallisted 1985
• Montserrat Recreational Demonstration Area Warehouse #2 and Workshoplisted 1985

Knob Noster grew from 2,709 to 2,782 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.

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.

• 1885 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1887 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1917 USGS Knobnoster quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Knob Noster quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Washington township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Knob Noster between 2003 and 2020, burning about 98 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Carbon Hill
• Montserrat
• Blackwater (historical)
• Bristle Ridge
• Chilhowee
• Cornelia

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Knob Noster: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal, 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.

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knob Noster in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Johnson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729757. 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.