Mill Spring, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mill Spring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63952. It lies near Kenny Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mill Spring quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMill Spring fell from 189 to 159 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 | 189 | |
| 2020 | 159 | -30 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 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.
- 1932 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1935 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Mill Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
50 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Mill Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were 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 | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | TWIN POND ROAD |
| 14 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220568-02220-07142020-2012 |
| 8 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Mill Spring: 16 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Armstrong Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Cedar Bay Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1882, 1888 | |
| Cedar Bay Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Christman Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Clarkson Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Eads Bank | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Early Bank | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Early Bank | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Embree Land | Iron | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeper | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Gaylor | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Chilton (historical) | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Barlow (historical) | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Kerrigan (historical) | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Beckville | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Piedmont | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Dees Town | 7.5 miles | 17 |
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 Mill Spring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2098063 | 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 722359. 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.












