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.
Population over time
2 figuresKoshkonong 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 196 | -16 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Thayer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Thayer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Thayer SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
59 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 August 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 July 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Brian Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Edward Davis Property | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Frank Devers Prospect | Iron | Prospect | Surface | |
| Hayden Pressley Property | Iron | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Jessie Jewell Property | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Property | Iron | Occurrence | Surface | |
| L.S.Huff Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Mack Thomas Prospect | Iron | Past Producer | 1938 | |
| Rebecca Brazeal Land | Iron | Prospect | 1930 | |
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF3) | Koshkonong | $800,000 | A 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Koshkonong | $40,000 | A few trees were blown into power lines. |
| January 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Koshkonong | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Koshkonong | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down over Highway M and Highway Z. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Koshkonong | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported in a rural part of the county. No damage was reported. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported. No damage was reported by the Emergency Manager. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | Half dollar size hail was reported by the public via social media. Time was estimated via radar. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | Penny size hail was reported in the city limits of Koshkonong. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Koshkonong | - | A large tree was blown down over Highway F in Koshkonong. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Koshkonong | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Koshkonong | - | no account filed |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Koshkonong | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culp Ford | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Elliot Ford | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Sloan Ford | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hunter Crossing | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Clifton | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Thayer | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Green Town | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Allen Ford | 7.9 miles | 13 |
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 Koshkonong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953794 | 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 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.







