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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.

Missouri City within Clay County

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 figures

Missouri 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.

YearPeople Change
2010267
2020217-50 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

In the county-history sources

52 words on this township

History 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 1992

Regional 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177818-02412-08032018-1105
12 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177819-02412-08122018-1657
21 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177817-02412-07212018-1652
1 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179267-02412-07012019-2142
7 May 2018Debris and open burning1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177239-02412-05072018-0423
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179272-02412-04212019-1433

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Missouri Rock Plant #2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tobin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Thunderstorm WindMissouri City$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts to 85 mph were estimated in Missouri City. Numerous tree limbs were snapped and power lines were reported down.
September 2023HailMissouri City-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near Missouri City.
June 2021Tornado (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 2016HailMissouri City-Report came from Missouri Highway 210 east of Missouri City.
June 2016HailMissouri City-no account filed
May 2013HailMissouri City-no account filed
May 2010HailMissouri City-no account filed
May 2010HailMissouri City-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindMissouri City-no account filed
March 1997HailMissouri City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Excelsior Springs Junction2.5 miles20
Cooleys (historical)3.2 miles20
Clevenger3.5 miles20
Miltondale3.7 miles18
Stockdale4.5 miles22
Prathersville5.0 miles22
Coopers5.1 miles18
Mosby5.2 miles22

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960414The 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.