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Lewistown, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in La Belle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63452. The Survey maps it on the Lewistown quadrangle. 521 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Lewistown within Lewis County

On record in Lewistown

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

Lewistown fell from 534 to 521 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
2010534
2020521-13 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lewistown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 243 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
14 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230682-02079-06142020-1302
10 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140921-02079-06102016-1631
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177807-02079-04292018-1543
17 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140920-02079-04122016-1428
31 March 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewistown in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
May 1994HailLewistown$5,000Hail up to golf ball-size was reported by a television station out of Quincy Il. Some small trees were also blown down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds downed one large tree in Lewistown.
June 2024HailLewistown-An X/Twitter post reported mostly quarters to golf ball sized hail falling in Lewistown. The person found at least one hailstone measured to be 2.5 inches and photographed the measurement.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorms produced a wide swath of damaging winds as it moved east southeast across the county. In Lewistown, a large tree was blown over onto an unoccupied mobile home. In Ewing, the roof was blown off of a church and numerous trees were blown down around town. In Canton, there was widespread tree damage and numerous trees uprooted or snapped off. Also, an unanchored mobile home was pushed off of its foundation.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees as well as numerous tree limbs in Lewistown.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLewistown-An intense bow echo moved through Lewistown, blowing down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines. Two large trees fell onto homes in town causing extensive damage. One house had its roof shifted which caused the ceiling to crash to the floor. No injuries were reported.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds blew down a power line in town.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Downburst winds caused extensive damage on the south side of Lewistown. A narrow corridor of enhanced winds, approximately 40 yards wide extended from the western edge of the town, between Monticello and Arbell Streets to Elm Street to the east. Two mobile homes located west of Cherry Street were completely destroyed. There were no occupants in either mobile home. A radio tower outside of the Lewistown Fire Station, which is on Cherry Street, was blown down. A number of trees and large tree limbs were blown down in the area. Pieces of the first mobile home were wrapped around one large tree trunk east of Cherry Street while much of the second mobile home was partially wrapped around and pushed against a large tree. The home east of this point was protected by a large tree from much of the mobile home debris. Winds were estimated around 100 mph in this area. South of Arbell Street to the far southeastern part of town, damaging downburst winds were observed. A few large trees fell on homes over this area. A window was blown out on the Lewis County C-1 school on State Route J near the intersection with County Road 208. The downburst wind damage area extended a bit further east to S. Oak Street. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Downburst winds destroyed a machine shed in an open field about a quarter mile east of the intersection of Highway DD and County Road 204. A little further to the east, a barn was destroyed. The debris from this barn extended half a mile to the east southeast.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds blew off part of the roof of a building. The debris was scattered for over a quarter of a mile to the east. Four other buildings on the property sustained minor roof or wall damage. Also, some of the metal roof was wrapped around a power pole nearby.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines in Lewistown. Thunderstorm winds were estimated around 60 mph two miles east of Monticello.
May 2008HailLewistown-Local emergency management reported nickel size hail from Lewistown to Ewing.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLewistown-Local law enforcement reported trees down.
May 2001HailLewistown-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail in Lewistown.
March 2000HailLewistown-The Farm Service Agency reported golfball size hail fell in Lewistown.
May 1997HailLewistown-County sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2026HailLewistown-no account filed
April 2022HailLewistown-no account filed
June 2011HailLewistown-no account filed
June 2010HailLewistown-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLewistown-no account filed
August 2007HailLewistown-no account filed
July 1999LightningLewistown-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F1)Lewistown-no account filed
May 1998HailLewistown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
New Court Village1.4 miles16
Tolona4.5 miles15
Midway5.1 miles17
La Belle5.7 miles16
Monticello5.8 miles15
Argola6.3 miles10
Salem6.7 miles16
Sellers7.5 miles15

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 LewistownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959381The 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 735689. 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.