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Newtonia, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newtonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64866. The Survey maps it on the Newtonia quadrangle. 204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Newtonia within Newton County

On record in Newtonia

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Newtonia grew from 199 to 204 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
2010199
2020204+5 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Newtonia between 1994 and 2000, burning about 37 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 July 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 February 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 December 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 November 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 254 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 254 workings within 5 miles of Newtonia: 253 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
Cadmium MineZinc, CadmiumPast Producer
Old Devil MineZinc, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - Zn & Pb & CoalZinc, Lead, CoalPast Producer
Culpepper DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Dorris & Cavender MineLeadPast Producer
Dungy MineZincPast Producer
Foster MineLeadPast Producer
Shinn MineZincPast Producer
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer
Newtonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newtonia in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood. 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNewtonia$3,000no account filed
September 2021Thunderstorm WindNewtonia-Several large tree limbs were reported down on Highway 86.
July 2020HailNewtonia-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2017Flash FloodNewtonia-Water was over Kentucky Road and Teal Drive. The road was impassable.
November 2015FloodNewtonia-MODOT reported that Highway 86 was closed between Newtonia and Stark City due to flooding.
December 2015Flash FloodNewtonia-Missouri Highway 86 was closed due to flooding.
May 2013FloodNewtonia-Highway 86 was closed due to high water.
May 2011Flash FloodNewtonia-A UPS driver reported water over Highway 86 and the road was impassable.
March 2010Flash FloodNewtonia-Highway M was closed due to flooding.
April 2006Flash FloodNewtonia-A section of Highway 86 near Newtonia was inundated with flash flooding from slow moving thunderstorms. A local fire department had to perform a water rescue in response to a vehicle that had been washed off the road from this swift moving water.
June 2004Flash FloodNewtonia-A section of Highway 86 between Newtonia and Stark City was closed due to flash flooding over the roadway.
April 2011HailNewtonia-no account filed
January 2005Flash FloodNewtonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Stark City1.0 miles11
Chester (historical)2.5 miles11
Aroma4.3 miles16
Wanda4.6 miles11
Ritchey4.7 miles11
Granby4.7 miles14
Cartmell (historical)5.0 miles11
Sweetwater5.5 miles16

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 NewtoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966145The 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 723346. 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.