BlockLock Springs, Missouri
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64648. The Survey maps it on the Breckenridge quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLock Springs fell from 57 to 40 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 | 57 | |
| 2020 | 40 | -17 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1922 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Breckenridge quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jackson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
John Oxford
The subject of this sketch was born in Clay county, Kentucky, April 9, 1833. His parents are Jonathan and Elizabeth Spurlock Oxford, the former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Kentucky. Tis father was one of the first settlers of Daviess county, and was taken out and shot during the war, April 4, 1863; his mother still resides upon the farm where they first settled upon their arrival in this connty.
In the county-history sources
8,979 words on this townshipThe History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The Rev. Edgar French, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was amoug the early preachers and held services at several of the settlers' cabins, and at the old log school-house, near where is now Lock Springs.
Passage source: The History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882.
The ministers who have otticiated since its organization are as follows, in the order named: Rev. 8. Robert Speer, John W. French, D. Walker, J.W. French, A. F. Cooper, W. D. Doods, Robert Speer, J. W. French, E. 8. Ravan, W. N. Nickell, J. W. French, E. 8. Ragan, J. W. French, and the present incumbent, E. 8. Ragan. It is in a flourishing condition with amembership of sixty-seven. This was the first organized church in the township, and is situated one-half mile north of Lock Springs.
Passage source: The History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882.
Jackson township can boast of two villages, notof very great proportions but like all rising towns they believe immensely in their future. They are both on the Jine of the St. Louis & Omaha Railroad, some five miles apart and of course a great convenience to the farmers and stock-raisers in that vieinity. Lock Springs, situated in the southwest corner of the township, and the county as well, claims a solid population, on a fair count, of fifty. Tt is a railroad station with a depot building and has the following business lrouses : -
Passage source: The History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Fires near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lock Springs between 1999 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176694-05996-04222018-1720 |
| 5 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 261533-03160-03052020-1620 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lock Springs: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lock Springs Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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.
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 Lock Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2486696 | 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 741020. 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.