Mount Vernon, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mount Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65712. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 4,526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.
On record in Mount Vernon
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
Lawrence County Courthouselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresMount Vernon fell from 4,575 to 4,526 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 | 4,575 | |
| 2020 | 4,526 | -49 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1888 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000
- 1921 USGS Stotts City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 2016 and 2020, burning about 86 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230726-05533-09252020-1816 |
| 21 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230711-05533-09212020-1519 |
| 12 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230801-05516-09122020-2005 |
| 28 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220645-05533-08282020-1647 |
| 11 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177403-05533-08112018-1825 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177221-05533-07072018-1340 |
| 25 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177320-05533-07252018-1553 |
| 21 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178998-05533-07212019-0022 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Mount Vernon: 16 past producers, 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Barite & Iron | Barium-Barite, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay & Iron | Iron, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Lead | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Lead & Zinc | Zinc, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Lead & Zinc | Zinc, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Lead & Zinc | Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Lead & Zinc | Lead, Zinc | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoberg | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Gaither (historical) | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Elliott | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Heatonville | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Landrum | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Albatross | 6.0 miles | 17 | |
| Opal | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Orange | 6.7 miles | 19 |
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 Vernon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q780433 | 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 722909. 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.







