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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.

Knox City within Knox County

Population over time

2 figures

Knox 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.

YearPeople Change
2010216
2020191-25 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Tornado (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 2005Thunderstorm WindKnox City-A storm spotter reported some large tree limbs down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKnox City-Storm spotters reported large tree limbs down and the roof of a grocery storm damaged.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindKnox City-Storm spotters reported trees and power lines down from thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2000HailKnox City-Storm spotters reported 1 1/2 inch hail south of Knox City.
September 2019HailKnox City-no account filed
May 2018HailKnox City-no account filed
June 2011HailKnox City-no account filed
August 2007HailKnox City-no account filed
August 2007HailKnox City-no account filed
August 2004HailKnox City-no account filed
August 2004HailKnox City-no account filed
August 2004HailKnox City-no account filed
August 2004HailKnox City-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKnox City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Jeddo3.7 miles16
Forest Springs4.1 miles16
Colony7.7 miles16
Edina8.8 miles10
Milltown9.2 miles10
Millport9.6 miles9
Hedge City10.3 miles9
Newark10.6 miles10

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962482The 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.