Mendon, Missouri
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Mendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64660. The Survey maps it on the Mendon quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMendon fell from 171 to 163 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 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 163 | -8 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1949 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:24000, 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
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mendon between 1999 and 2018, burning about 499 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 March 2000 | Smoking | 380 acres | Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge | ESIDEPRAIR |
| 6 March 2018 | Natural | 53 acres | Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge | ELK CREEK |
| 27 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 2000 | Smoking | 10 acres | Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge | TAYLORPOIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | $5,000 | Tree down on car. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | $1,000 | Power lines were downed with power outages reported near Swan lake. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Power poles snapped and 2x4's scattered across the road near Mendon. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Mendon | - | A very weak supercell, that barely showed up on radar produced a brief and weak tornado in Mendon. Some minor structure damage and power lines down were reported, but otherwise no injuries were reported. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | A barn roof was blown onto Highway 11 near Mendon. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Mendon | - | Water flooded several county roads. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Mendon | - | Severe weather spotters reported nickel-size hail 5 miles east of Mendon. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Mendon | - | 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.
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 Mendon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958540 | 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 735720. 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.





