Mooresville, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mooresville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64664. The Survey maps it on the Utica West quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMooresville grew from 91 to 98 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 | 91 | |
| 2020 | 98 | +7 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1924 USGS Dawn quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Utica quadrangle1:62500
- 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
- 1984 USGS Utica West quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
220 words on this townshipPast and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Mooresville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Lying south of the west branch of Grand river is township 57, range 25, and together with fractional parts of sections 31 and 32 in 58-25 comprise the township of Mooresville. Some of the best farms in Livingston county are found in the south central and southeast portions, while the northern section of the township adjacent to Grand river is considerably broken, but heavily timbered. Limestone is found in abundance in the broken and hilly section of the county. Bituminous coal of an excellent quality is also found in this township, an extended report of which may be found in the geological department of this work. The first settlements were made in 1833 ^^^ among the early pioneers were the Hudginses, Tomlins, Woolseys, McCoskries and their descendants. Among the later comers were the Fisks, Manns, Fields, Lawsons,
Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.
This township was made a municipal organization by the county court December i8, 1866, in compliance with a petition presented by Vv^ H. Gaunt, Adam Lydick and many others, being formed out of Monroe and Greene townships and was named Mooresville for the village of the same name.
Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Mooresville between 1997 and 2017, burning about 167 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 March 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Mooresville: 19 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utica Roving Sand Plant | Silica | Producer | ||
| Midland Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Midland Clay Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooresville in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2006 | Hail | Mooresville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Mooresville | - | Multiple roads in the Ludlow area were closed due to flooding waters. |
| November 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Mooresville | - | A brief EF0 tornado touchdown was observed in rural open country at 16:10 CST. The tornado lifted by 16:11 CST. No damage was reported with this tornado. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | Nickel sized hail was also reported with this thunderstorm. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Mooresville | - | Citizens reported hail covering the ground, with hailstones up to nickel size. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Mooresville | - | Dime-size hail was reported by the public at Mooresville. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | The same thunderstorm that produced the dime-size hail in Mooresville also generated a 60 MPH wind gust. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Mooresville | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Mooresville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sampsel | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Utica | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ludlow | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Dawn | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Chillicothe | 9.4 miles | 12 | |
| Springhill | 9.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cleary | 9.9 miles | 13 | |
| Genova | 11.1 miles | 12 |
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 Mooresville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2236942 | 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 722594. 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.







