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Lake Ozark, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Glaze Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65049. It lies near Wilson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Ozark quadrangle. 2,077 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Lake Ozark within Miller County

On record in Lake Ozark

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Ozark grew from 1,586 to 2,077 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
20101,586
20202,077+491 (+31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Lake Ozark between 1992 and 2020, burning about 732 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
4 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178300-06633-08042018-2325
25 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178303-06633-08252018-1545
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178207-01509-08242018-1853
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178206-01509-08232018-2020
5 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178204-01509-07252018-0930
20 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178066-01509-07202018-2030
19 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179021-01509-07192019-1606

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Lake Ozark: 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Osage Asphalt Mine Limestone & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ozark Sand Co. Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bear Creek MinesBarium-BaritePast Producer
Earl Starks LandBarium-BaritePast Producer
Kerr MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Meade MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Platter MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Seigel-Martin Tiff BankBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Ozark in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Ozark$50,000Light poles and trees were blown down in Eldon. Some outbuildings and sheds were damaged. In Lake Ozark, several large trees were blown down damaging cars.
June 2003Flash FloodLake Ozark$10,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindLake Ozark$3,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Ozark-Tree limbs were blown down.
May 2010HailLake Ozark-no account filed
May 2010HailLake Ozark-no account filed
April 2005HailLake Ozark-no account filed
May 2004HailLake Ozark-no account filed
May 2004HailLake Ozark-no account filed
May 2003HailLake Ozark-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodLake Ozark-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodLake Ozark-no account filed
July 2003HailLake Ozark-no account filed
September 2001HailLake Ozark-no account filed
May 1996HailLake Ozark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Lakeside1.2 miles22
Arrowhead1.3 miles25
Arrowhead Beach1.4 miles25
Lakeview1.4 miles22
Lakeland1.7 miles25
Bagnell2.8 miles22
Kaiser5.2 miles22
West Aurora8.3 miles23

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 Lake OzarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957540The 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 729529. 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.