Neck City, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mineral Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64755. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Neck City quadrangle. 228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNeck City grew from 186 to 228 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 | 186 | |
| 2020 | 228 | +42 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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 Carthage quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Neck City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
34 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Neck City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 199 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 | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 | Debris and open burning | 7.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230753-02439-09252020-1455 |
| 21 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230712-02439-09212020-1645 |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230707-04955-09202020-1920 |
| 30 June 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177195-04955-06302018-2059 |
| 17 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177913-04902-05172018-1641 |
| 12 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190403-04955-04082020-1515 |
| 6 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190402-04955-04062020-1340 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 97 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 97 workings within 5 miles of Neck City: 96 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenix Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | 1855, 1910 | |
| Nelson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Aylor Lease N.E. Joplin | Zinc | Past Producer | 1898, 1900 | |
| Gibson Lease N.E. Joplin | Zinc | Past Producer | 1898, 1900 | |
| Marsh Lease N.E. Joplin | Zinc | Past Producer | 1898, 1900 | |
| Quick Seven Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1870, 1920 | |
| Robinson Lease N.E. Joplin | Zinc | Past Producer | 1898, 1900 | |
| Virginia Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1911, 1912 | |
| Anna Linda Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Big 4 Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neck City in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neck City | $50,000 | A home and a barn suffered minor wind damage to siding and roofing. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Neck City | $50,000 | Golf ball-size hail was reported and covered many roads. A lightning strike also caught a business on fire in rural Joplin. The building was nearly destroyed with an estimated $400,000 worth of damage. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neck City | $25,000 | Multiple powerlines were reported down in the Neck City area. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neck City | $10,000 | A large tree was downed and a barn suffered minor roof damage. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neck City | $10,000 | Trees were downed from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. One large tree fell on a house causing minor structural damage. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neck City | $2,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts caused minor damage to a home and split a soft tree. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neck City | - | Numerous large tree branches were downed by strong straight line winds. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Neck City | - | Trained spotter reported a wind gust up to 45 mph. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Neck City | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Neck City | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Neck City | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Neck City | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Neck City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954067 | 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 729933. 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.









