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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.

Mount Vernon within Lawrence County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,575
20204,526-49 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

30 since 2016

Regional 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning9

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
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230726-05533-09252020-1816
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230711-05533-09212020-1519
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230801-05516-09122020-2005
28 August 2020Debris and open burning3.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220645-05533-08282020-1647
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177403-05533-08112018-1825
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177221-05533-07072018-1340
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177320-05533-07252018-1553
21 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178998-05533-07212019-0022

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Barite & IronBarium-Barite, IronPast Producer
Unknown - ClayKaolinPast Producer
Unknown - Clay & IronIron, ClayPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadProspect
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincZinc, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincProspect
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Hoberg2.8 miles17
Gaither (historical)4.9 miles17
Elliott5.6 miles19
Heatonville5.9 miles17
Landrum5.9 miles17
Albatross6.0 miles17
Opal6.2 miles17
Orange6.7 miles19

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 VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q780433The 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.