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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.

Neck City within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Neck 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.

YearPeople Change
2010186
2020228+42 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

34 since 1993

Regional 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Fireworks1

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 2020Debris and open burning7.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230753-02439-09252020-1455
21 September 2020Debris and open burning2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230712-02439-09212020-1645
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230707-04955-09202020-1920
30 June 2018Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177195-04955-06302018-2059
17 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177913-04902-05172018-1641
12 May 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190403-04955-04082020-1515
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190402-04955-04062020-1340

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 97 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fenix MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1855, 1910
Nelson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Aylor Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900
Gibson Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900
Marsh Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900
Quick Seven MineZincPast Producer1870, 1920
Robinson Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900
Virginia MineZincPast Producer1911, 1912
Anna Linda MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Big 4 MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNeck City$50,000A home and a barn suffered minor wind damage to siding and roofing.
April 1994HailNeck City$50,000Golf 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 2019Thunderstorm WindNeck City$25,000Multiple powerlines were reported down in the Neck City area.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNeck City$10,000A large tree was downed and a barn suffered minor roof damage.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNeck City$10,000Trees were downed from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. One large tree fell on a house causing minor structural damage.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNeck City$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused minor damage to a home and split a soft tree.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNeck City-Numerous large tree branches were downed by strong straight line winds.
March 2013HailNeck City-Trained spotter reported a wind gust up to 45 mph.
May 2018HailNeck City-no account filed
September 2014HailNeck City-no account filed
July 2013HailNeck City-no account filed
May 2008HailNeck City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Purcell1.1 miles17
Alba1.9 miles17
Preston3.3 miles17
Galesburg3.9 miles22
Cossville4.8 miles17
Oronogo4.9 miles17
Tuckers Corner5.5 miles17
Medoc5.6 miles22

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954067The 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.