Mount Moriah, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Trail Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64481. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Moriah quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMount Moriah fell from 87 to 75 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 | 87 | |
| 2020 | 75 | -12 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1947 USGS Blythedale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Mount Moriah quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mount Moriah between 1999 and 2018, burning about 23 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 | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177461-02319-06052018-1134 |
| 8 March 2015 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120251-02319-03082015-1319 |
| 22 March 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177103-02319-03222018-2318 |
| 14 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120943-02319-03142015-1601 |
| 18 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177284-02319-02182018-2023 |
| 2 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mount Moriah: 10 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livesay Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lobby | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ray Arney Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stewart Whisler Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Trail Creek Township Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cainsville | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Bolton | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Ridgeway | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Gardner | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Blue Ridge | 12.1 miles | 13 | |
| Blythedale | 12.2 miles | 9 | |
| Melbourne | 13.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bethany | 13.1 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 Mount Moriah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958935 | 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 722781. 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.





