Knox City, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Myrtle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63446. The Survey maps it on the Knox City quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKnox City fell from 216 to 191 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 | 216 | |
| 2020 | 191 | -25 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Knox City quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
15 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knox City in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Knox City | - | A tornado touched down about 3.5 miles northwest of Knox City and traveled to the east. Two outbuildings sustained major damage with a displaced roof to one of the buildings and the other sustained major damage to one of its walls. Numerous tree tops were twisted, torn and/or snapped off. The most severe damage was along County Road 164, about half a mile south of Route AA. The tornado lifted and dissipated about 2.5 miles north northeast of Knox City. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knox City | - | A storm spotter reported some large tree limbs down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knox City | - | Storm spotters reported large tree limbs down and the roof of a grocery storm damaged. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knox City | - | Storm spotters reported trees and power lines down from thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Knox City | - | Storm spotters reported 1 1/2 inch hail south of Knox City. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Knox City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knox City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeddo | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Forest Springs | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Colony | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Edina | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Milltown | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Millport | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hedge City | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| Newark | 10.6 miles | 10 |
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 Knox City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962482 | 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 735679. 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.
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.





