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Koshkonong, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Apple Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65692. The Survey maps it on the Koshkonong quadrangle. 196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Koshkonong within Oregon County

Population over time

2 figures

Koshkonong fell from 212 to 196 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
2010212
2020196-16 (-8%)

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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Koshkonong between 1992 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning19
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking1

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
28 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 August 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Koshkonong: 16 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Ben Brian ProspectIronOccurrenceSurface
Edward Davis PropertyIronPast Producer
Frank Devers ProspectIronProspectSurface
Hayden Pressley PropertyIronPast ProducerSurface
Jessie Jewell PropertyIronPast Producer
Johnson PropertyIronOccurrenceSurface
L.S.Huff BankIronPast Producer
Mack Thomas ProspectIronPast Producer1938
Rebecca Brazeal LandIronProspect1930
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oregon County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Koshkonong in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 6 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
March 2025Tornado (EF3)Koshkonong$800,000A 24 mile long tornado path was determined by a combination of NWS survey, storm reports, and satellite damage to have moved from just north of Koshkonong to 2 miles north of Alton before lifting 8 miles northeast of Alton. Maximum width was approximately a half mile wide though it was likely considerably narrower in places. While much of the path was to trees along with several outbuildings, the tornado damaged a few homes including a south facing ground level home off County Road 402 where it caused EF3 damage. The track continued northeast of Alton into the Mark Twain National Forest with satellite detecting an intermittent path of uprooted trees to near the Eleven Point River at Turners Mill.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKoshkonong$40,000A few trees were blown into power lines.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindKoshkonong$20,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindKoshkonong$2,000Several trees were blown down over Highway M and Highway Z.
April 1994HailKoshkonong$500no account filed
April 2020HailKoshkonong-Golf ball sized hail was reported in a rural part of the county. No damage was reported.
April 2020HailKoshkonong-Golf ball sized hail was reported. No damage was reported by the Emergency Manager.
April 2020HailKoshkonong-Quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2018HailKoshkonong-Half dollar size hail was reported by the public via social media. Time was estimated via radar.
September 2016HailKoshkonong-Penny size hail was reported in the city limits of Koshkonong.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKoshkonong-A large tree was blown down over Highway F in Koshkonong.
April 2006HailKoshkonong-no account filed
April 2006HailKoshkonong-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindKoshkonong-no account filed
May 1998HailKoshkonong-no account filed
October 1996HailKoshkonong-no account filed
April 1996HailKoshkonong-no account filed
November 1995Thunderstorm WindKoshkonong-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oregon 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
Culp Ford4.1 miles12
Elliot Ford4.8 miles12
Sloan Ford5.2 miles13
Hunter Crossing5.8 miles13
Clifton6.7 miles13
Thayer7.5 miles13
Green Town7.9 miles13
Allen Ford7.9 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 KoshkonongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953794The 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 720691. 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.