BlockMorehouse, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63868. The Survey maps it on the Morehouse quadrangle. 741 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 302 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMorehouse fell from 973 to 741 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 | 973 | |
| 2020 | 741 | -232 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1931 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Morehouse quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morehouse in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 tornado, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Morehouse | $900,000 | An EF-1 tornado began just south of County Road 824 and west of Highway FF near Browns, and moved east northeast into the south side of Sikeston where it dissipated near Ingram Road. The tornado did mainly roof damage to homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and a nursing home on the south side of Sikeston. It also broke several wooden power poles and damaged a few barns and outbuildings. The estimated peak wind was 105 mph. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF3) | Morehouse | $350,000 | An EF-3 tornado formed near County Road 793 in Stoddard County, then tracked northeastward into New Madrid County at County Road 799. Continuing northeastward, the tornado badly damaged a well-built brick home east of Morehouse, removing its roof and collapsing most of the exterior walls. One home in Morehouse burned down due to an unattended candle used during a power outage caused by the tornado, resulting in one fatality (51f, indirect). The tornado crossed into Scott County at Butler St in southwest Sikeston. Peak winds for the New Madrid County portion, and the tornado as a whole, were 140 mph. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morehouse | $16,000 | Two telephone poles and three trees were down. |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Morehouse | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morehouse | $4,000 | Tree limbs were down, and power outages were reported. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Morehouse | $1,000 | An EF-3 tornado (max EF-1 for this second New Madrid County portion) formed in Stoddard County, then tracked northeastward through New Madrid County into Scott County at Butler St in southwest Sikeston, then crossing back briefly into New Madrid County. The track goes through Branum St, crossing back over to Scott County at Montgomery St where a tree was snapped. Peak winds for this second New Madrid portion were 100 mph. |
| May 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Morehouse | - | A funnel cloud developed between Sikeston and Morehouse, just south of Highway 60 and west of Highway FF. |
| November 2004 | Flash Flood | Morehouse | - | Water was reported on Route FF due to a broad area of heavy rainfall, up to an inch per hour. |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Morehouse | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported, with no damage. |
| April 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Morehouse | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Morehouse | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Morehouse | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Morehouse | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little River | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Delmo | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Juanita (historical) | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Canalou | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Champion | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Matthews | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Big Ridge | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| East Lake | 9.2 miles | 15 |
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 Morehouse | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960295 | 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 722600. 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.
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.