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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.

Mendon within Chariton County

Population over time

2 figures

Mendon 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.

YearPeople Change
2010171
2020163-8 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

7 since 1999

Regional 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 burning3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2000Smoking380 acresSwan Lake National Wildlife RefugeESIDEPRAIR
6 March 2018Natural53 acresSwan Lake National Wildlife RefugeELK CREEK
27 March 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 2000Smoking10 acresSwan Lake National Wildlife RefugeTAYLORPOIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMendon$5,000Tree down on car.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMendon$1,000Power lines were downed with power outages reported near Swan lake.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMendon-Power poles snapped and 2x4's scattered across the road near Mendon.
May 2015Tornado (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 2015Thunderstorm WindMendon-A barn roof was blown onto Highway 11 near Mendon.
June 2005Flash FloodMendon-Water flooded several county roads.
July 1997HailMendon-Severe weather spotters reported nickel-size hail 5 miles east of Mendon.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindMendon-no account filed
April 2007HailMendon-no account filed
May 2003HailMendon-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMendon-no account filed
October 2000HailMendon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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
Whitham4.3 miles10
Newhall5.5 miles11
Rothville5.8 miles11
Newcomer5.9 miles11
Cunningham6.6 miles11
Triplett7.1 miles18
Sumner7.3 miles11
Snyder7.5 miles10

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 MendonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958540The 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.