Lancaster, Missouri
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63548. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle. 675 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.
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On record in Lancaster
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
Hall, William P., Houselisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresLancaster fell from 728 to 675 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 | 728 | |
| 2020 | 675 | -53 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lancaster between 2002 and 2015, burning about 203 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 May 2014 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 121876-09828-03162015-1250 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | 1 killed | Flash flooding caused pavement over a culvert to give way. This caused the front end of a vehicle, to fall through the roadway. While attempting to get out of the vehicle, a 32 year old male, was swept away by the current and drowned. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | $50,000 | The county sheriff reported wind damage to the roof of a house. |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | $50,000 | The county sheriff reported two damaged garages in Glenwood. A television weatherman from KTVO in Kirksville reported several signs blown down and a mobile home flipped over at Lancaster. Time was estimated. |
| July 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Lancaster | $15,000 | Tornado touched down along D highway 1.75 miles south-southeast of Lancaster at 1935 CST. A damage path was noted for 1.1 miles, and the storm damaged 3 farmsteads directly. The first farmstead had an outbuilding destroyed and windows blown out of the farmhouse. As the tornado moved south, two barns were destroyed at the second farmstead. Near Gray's Drive and Highway D, just southwest of the D and V Highway intersection, additional damage was noted to a third farmstead, with significant low-end F1 damage to outbuildings. Numerous trees and power lines were also downed along Highway D. Anecdotal observations suggest the tornado turned left before dissipating at 1938 CST, and then may have looped back north along Highway D to near the Highways D and V intersection, where minor damage was noted to a fourth homestead. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | $10,000 | Damage to building and sheds blown over along Highway 63. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | $1,000 | Machine shed had roof torn partially off. Tree damage around Highway V. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Multiple large tree limbs downed and 5 power poles downed or damaged in Lancaster. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Volunteer fire fighter records a 60 mph measured gust on a personal weather station. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Water was over Highway 136 east of Highway 63. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Water was over Highway 136 east of Lancaster. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Widespread tree damage was reported. A tractor trailer was blown over. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Routes U and M were closed due to high water. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Several county roads were flooded. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Corn was flattened, and trim was torn off a house. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Lancaster | - | The Schuyler County Sherrif's office reported golfball-size hail a mile southeast of Lancaster and dime-size hail 2 miles northwest of Downing. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| January 2005 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Lancaster | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood | 2.6 miles | 7 | |
| Glenwood Junction | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Julesburg | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Germania | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Clifton | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Coatsville | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Vinita | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Guinn | 7.9 miles | 7 |
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 Lancaster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965683 | 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 720781. 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.
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.




