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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.

Morley within Scott County

Population over time

2 figures

Morley 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.

YearPeople Change
2010697
2020630-67 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
24 September 2017Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 July 1996Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 July 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 June 1997Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 December 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Glasstetler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1999Tornado (F1)Morley$150,000A 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 1996Thunderstorm WindMorley$80,000no account filed
May 2003Tornado (F2)Morley$75,000One 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 1999Thunderstorm WindMorley$5,000Trees and one utility pole were downed.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMorley$1,000A metal shed was destroyed and several trees were blown down on County Road 431 at 427.
May 2025HailMorley-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 2000HailMorley-Half-dollar size hail fell at Morley.
May 2000HailMorley-Dime size hail was reported just west of Morley. Silver-dollar size hail fell at Chaffee.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindMorley-no account filed
May 2003Flash FloodMorley-no account filed
May 2002HailMorley-no account filed
April 1998HailMorley-no account filed
April 1998HailMorley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Brooks Junction2.2 miles19
Haywood City2.2 miles20
Bleda2.4 miles19
Parker3.5 miles19
Oran3.7 miles19
Benton4.5 miles20
Lambert4.5 miles20
Blodgett5.2 miles20

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 MorleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961498The 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.