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.
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 figuresLewistown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 534 | |
| 2020 | 521 | -13 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1903 USGS Kahoka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230682-02079-06142020-1302 |
| 10 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 140921-02079-06102016-1631 |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 96 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177807-02079-04292018-1543 |
| 17 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 140920-02079-04122016-1428 |
| 31 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Hail | Lewistown | $5,000 | Hail up to golf ball-size was reported by a television station out of Quincy Il. Some small trees were also blown down. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Thunderstorm winds downed one large tree in Lewistown. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Lewistown | - | 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees as well as numerous tree limbs in Lewistown. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a power line in town. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines in Lewistown. Thunderstorm winds were estimated around 60 mph two miles east of Monticello. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lewistown | - | Local emergency management reported nickel size hail from Lewistown to Ewing. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lewistown | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail in Lewistown. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Lewistown | - | The Farm Service Agency reported golfball size hail fell in Lewistown. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Lewistown | - | County sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Lewistown | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lewistown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Court Village | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Tolona | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Midway | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| La Belle | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Monticello | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Argola | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Salem | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Sellers | 7.5 miles | 15 |
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 Lewistown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959381 | 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 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.







