Morley, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Morley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63767. The Survey maps it on the Morley quadrangle. 630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMorley fell from 697 to 630 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 | 697 | |
| 2020 | 630 | -67 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 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.
- 1934 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Morley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Morley between 1992 and 2017, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 June 1997 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 December 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Morley: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glasstetler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morley in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Morley | $150,000 | A brief tornado on State Highway 91 overturned a mobile home, demolished a barn and shed, and blew down a grain bin. Farm equipment was damaged. Siding was blown off a house. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $80,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F2) | Morley | $75,000 | One mobile home was destroyed. Several small buildings were damaged. Numerous trees were blown down or damaged. Several irrigation systems were moved and/or turned over. Peak winds in the tornado were estimated near 130 MPH. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $5,000 | Trees and one utility pole were downed. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $1,000 | A metal shed was destroyed and several trees were blown down on County Road 431 at 427. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Morley | - | A spotter's relative in Morley reported individual hailstones up to golf ball size, with enough hailstones falling for the ground to accumulate to around an inch thick. Hail fell in the leading portion of the supercell storm, ahead of the hook echo. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Morley | - | Half-dollar size hail fell at Morley. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Morley | - | Dime size hail was reported just west of Morley. Silver-dollar size hail fell at Chaffee. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Morley | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morley | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Morley | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Morley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks Junction | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Haywood City | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Bleda | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Parker | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Oran | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Benton | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Lambert | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Blodgett | 5.2 miles | 20 |
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 Morley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961498 | 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 722623. 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.











