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Meadville, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Parson Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64659. It stands on Lewis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meadville quadrangle. 415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Meadville within Linn County

Population over time

2 figures

Meadville fell from 462 to 415 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
2010462
2020415-47 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Meadville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 404 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
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
15 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation145276-05836-06152016-1645
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178654-00000-04102019-0900
9 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation119870-05836-03092015-1537
7 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadville in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2004HailMeadville$1,500,000This appears to be the largest hailstone ever measured officially in the state of Missouri. It was 6 inches in diameter and 16 1/2 inches in circumference. Hail did extensive damage to roofs and crops across Linn County, and the property damage total is reflective of all the hail damage reported in the county.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Meadville$200,000Brief tornado touchdown noted near Meadville.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindMeadville$50,000Power poles and lines were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadville$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. A pole barn was blown apart and several large trees were either snapped or blown down. Several trees had limbs up to 8 inches in diameter snapped off. The damage was observed east of Highway 139, and just off Highway D.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Sixty mph wind gusts reported in Meadville.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Several large tree limbs 1 to 2 feet in diameter were broken.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Fire and rescue estimated 70 mph wind in Meadville.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadville-A cattle barn and some trees were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Several tree limbs around 18 inches in diameter were broken from 60 to 70 mph winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Numerous 6 to 10 inch tree limbs were laying across Highway 36 near Meadville.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Several 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Road signs blown down and a tin roof blown from a shed.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
May 2010Flash FloodMeadville-Numerous streets around Meadville were reported under water.
June 2008Flash FloodMeadville-Highway 139 north of Meadville was closed due to flooding.
May 2004Flash FloodMeadville-Roads closed due to high water from heavy rains.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Storm spotters reported downed tree limbs, and estimated winds at 60 mph.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindMeadville-Trees downed.
June 1998HailMeadville-Golfball-size hail was reported by the public a mile northeast of Meadville.
May 2020HailMeadville-no account filed
May 2011HailMeadville-no account filed
June 2011HailMeadville-no account filed
June 2011HailMeadville-no account filed
May 2010HailMeadville-no account filed
July 2008HailMeadville-no account filed
April 2006HailMeadville-no account filed
May 2004HailMeadville-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMeadville-no account filed
May 2000HailMeadville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Fountain Grove5.1 miles15
Lowell5.4 miles14
Laclede7.2 miles11
Forker7.6 miles11
Linneus8.9 miles11
Eversonville9.1 miles14
Hecla10.7 miles14
Brookfield12.1 miles11

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 MeadvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965536The 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 735719. 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.