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Morrison, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65061. It stands on Shobes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Morrison within Gasconade County

On record in Morrison

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

Morrison fell from 139 to 93 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
2010139
202093-46 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Morrison in 2018, burning about 692 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177030-03733-03042018-1535
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined686 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177029-03733-03042018-1837

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gasconade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Morrison: 20 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ruprecht Quarry CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
St. Louis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zumsteg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zumsteg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Gasconade County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrison in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMorrison$50,000Numerous trees were blown down and large branches snapped. The winds also damaged several mobile homes, sheds, and roofs. The damage was most concentated in a two mile wide path in the north half of the county from the Gasconade River to Swiss. At the intersection of Old Iron Road and Highway 19, strong winds ripped part of the roof off a house. A school building at the east end of County Road NN also lost part of its roof. Three unanchored mobile homes on County Road NN at the north edge of Swiss were blown into each other. Elsewhere in the county strong winds tore away part of the roof off several sheds in Morrison and bent television antennas.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMorrison$15,000Widespread wind damage between Morrison and Gasconade. A number of trees were blown down onto Highway 100.
June 2013FloodMorrison$1,000no account filed
December 2015Flash FloodMorrison-Between 5 and 6 inches of rain fell causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 50 near Mt. Sterling and Route A in multiple areas between Routes Y and D. Also, Routes W and K were closed due to flash flooding from Second Creek.
June 2015Flash FloodMorrison-Up to 3 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded through out the county.
July 2010Flash FloodMorrison-Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Stollmeyer Road.
March 2012HailMorrison-no account filed
June 2010FloodMorrison-no account filed
June 2009HailMorrison-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMorrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gasconade 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
Stolpe3.0 miles21
Gasconade4.0 miles21
Fredericksburg4.5 miles21
Pershing6.7 miles21
Feigler Ferry7.6 miles21
Brown Shanty9.0 miles21
Hermann10.8 miles22
Swiss11.6 miles21

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 MorrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953635The 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 722653. 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.