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.
Population over time
2 figuresMeadville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 462 | |
| 2020 | 415 | -47 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1924 USGS Chula quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Chula quadrangle1:62500, 3 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 Meadville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 145276-05836-06152016-1645 |
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178654-00000-04102019-0900 |
| 9 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 119870-05836-03092015-1537 |
| 7 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Hail | Meadville | $1,500,000 | This 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Meadville | $200,000 | Brief tornado touchdown noted near Meadville. |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | $50,000 | Power poles and lines were blown down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | $1,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Sixty mph wind gusts reported in Meadville. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Several large tree limbs 1 to 2 feet in diameter were broken. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Fire and rescue estimated 70 mph wind in Meadville. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | A cattle barn and some trees were blown down. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Several tree limbs around 18 inches in diameter were broken from 60 to 70 mph winds. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Numerous 6 to 10 inch tree limbs were laying across Highway 36 near Meadville. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Several 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Road signs blown down and a tin roof blown from a shed. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Meadville | - | Numerous streets around Meadville were reported under water. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Meadville | - | Highway 139 north of Meadville was closed due to flooding. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Meadville | - | Roads closed due to high water from heavy rains. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Storm spotters reported downed tree limbs, and estimated winds at 60 mph. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | Trees downed. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Meadville | - | Golfball-size hail was reported by the public a mile northeast of Meadville. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Meadville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain Grove | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Lowell | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Laclede | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Forker | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Linneus | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Eversonville | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hecla | 10.7 miles | 14 | |
| Brookfield | 12.1 miles | 11 |
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 Meadville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965536 | 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 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.







