Lanagan, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pineville Lanagan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64831. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Noel quadrangle. 373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLanagan fell from 419 to 373 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 | 419 | |
| 2020 | 373 | -46 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1940 USGS Noel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Noel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Noel quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Neosho quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Lanagan between 1992 and 2014, burning about 253 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 July 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lanagan: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Joplin-Elk River Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lanagan Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Madge Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Truitt Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanagan in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 heavy rain, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanagan | $100,000 | A NWS storm survey found straight line wind damage for about 1.5 miles along Highway H west of Pineville. There were about 100 trees snapped or uprooted. One barn had the roof ripped off. One barn had the side of the structure buckled in. One tree fell on a pickup truck. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Lanagan | - | State Highway 59 was flooded along Elk Creek. |
| June 2019 | Heavy Rain | Lanagan | - | A CoCoRaHS Observer measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 3.68 inches. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanagan | - | A large tree was down in Lanagan blocking the roadway. |
| October 2019 | Heavy Rain | Lanagan | - | The CoCoRaHS station mo-md-1 near Noel reported 2.58 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanagan | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was reported. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Lanagan | - | Rainfall of 3.27 inches was measured since 7 am. This was on top of the previous day rainfall of 2.55 inches measured before 7 am. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Lanagan | - | McDonald County Sheriff Deputy observed water as far as he could see at the intersection of Indian Creek and Oscar Talley Road. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Lanagan | - | A section of Highway 59 was flooded about one mile north of Lanagan. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Lanagan | - | The CoCoRaHS station MO-MD-1 near Lanagan measured 3.66 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Lanagan | - | Happy Hollow Road near Lanagan was impassable due to flooding. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Lanagan | - | A storm total rainfall of 4.79 inches was measured at the Indian Creek guage near Lanagan. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Lanagan | - | Pea to penny size hail was reported between Pineville and Lanagan. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanagan | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Lanagan | - | In about six hours, 5.56 inches of rainfall was measured. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Lanagan | - | Highway EE west of Lanagan was flooded and impassable to motorists. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Lanagan | - | The county sheriff's office reported nickel size hail. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lanagan | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Flash Flood | Lanagan | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Lanagan | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosky Dell | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Ginger Blue | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Elk Springs | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Shira | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Poole Ford | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Anderson | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Riverside Inn | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Pineville | 3.5 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 Lanagan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954326 | 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 729915. 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.






