Missouri City, Missouri
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fishing River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64072. It stands on Rose Branch. The Survey maps it on the Missouri City quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.
On record in Missouri City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresMissouri City fell from 267 to 217 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 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 217 | -50 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 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.
- 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1935 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:24000
- 1945 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
52 words on this townshipHistory of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Fishing River Township covers position aud description, early history, first settlers, etc, voters at first election in township, country churches, missouri city, its ler and subsequent career.
Read the chapter on Fishing River Township - 52 words.
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Missouri City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177818-02412-08032018-1105 |
| 12 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177819-02412-08122018-1657 |
| 21 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177817-02412-07212018-1652 |
| 1 July 2019 | Fireworks | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179267-02412-07012019-2142 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177239-02412-05072018-0423 |
| 30 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 April 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179272-02412-04212019-1433 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Missouri City: 22 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Missouri Rock Plant #2 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tobin Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Missouri City in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Missouri City | $10,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 85 mph were estimated in Missouri City. Numerous tree limbs were snapped and power lines were reported down. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Missouri City | - | Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near Missouri City. |
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Missouri City | - | Someone driving along HWY 210 near Missouri City filmed a brief tornado in the field to the north of the highway. The visual appearance of the tornado was similar to a landspout, and with it being associated with a new updraft near a boundary, it was determined to be a landspout. |
| November 2016 | Hail | Missouri City | - | Report came from Missouri Highway 210 east of Missouri City. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Missouri City | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Missouri City | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Missouri City | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Missouri City | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Missouri City | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Missouri City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior Springs Junction | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Cooleys (historical) | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Clevenger | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Miltondale | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Stockdale | 4.5 miles | 22 | |
| Prathersville | 5.0 miles | 22 | |
| Coopers | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Mosby | 5.2 miles | 22 |
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 Missouri City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960414 | 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 730151. 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.
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.











