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Niangua, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Niangua Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65713. The Survey maps it on the Niangua quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Niangua within Webster County

Population over time

2 figures

Niangua fell from 405 to 390 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
2010405
2020390-15 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Niangua between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 September 1999Debris and open burning17 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2018Fireworks77 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177491-11204-07042018-2252
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177492-11204-07112018-2147
7 May 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220562-11204-05072020-1210
4 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137212-11203-04042016-1746
4 April 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178659-11204-04032019-1527
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177118-11204-04202018-1320

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Niangua: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Webster County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niangua in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2007Flash FloodNiangua3 hurtExcessive rainfall caused significant flash flooding across much of the county. At a flooded roadway near Marshfield, a vehicle was swept off of the road. Three injuries resulted from this episode.
January 2008Tornado (EF0)Niangua$750,000A National Wether Service storm survey revealed that an EF-2 tornado touched down over rural areas of eastern Webster County. Several homes and outbuildings were destroyed from this tornado.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNiangua$50,000Several mobile homes were blown off their piers in a trailer park on Plank School Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNiangua$5,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees and caused minor roof damage northeast of Marshfield.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNiangua$5,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused minor roof damage to a home along with downing several trees.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindNiangua$5,000Outbuildings, trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNiangua$2,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindNiangua$1,500no account filed
June 2025Flash FloodNiangua-Significant street flooding occurred in the city of Marshfield with numerous road closures in and around the city.
May 2024HailNiangua-Mping report of golf ball size hail. Damage estimates for the Marshield area during this evening are included elsewhere in this report.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNiangua-A few large trees were down along Highway M.
April 2016HailNiangua-Dime to nickel size hail was reported near Niangua.
June 2015Flash FloodNiangua-There was a high water rescue with a truck stranded in high water on Highway CC in Webster County near Niangua.
August 2013Flash FloodNiangua-Highway DD, east of town was reported as flooded and impassable.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNiangua-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees in the community of Niangua.
August 2003HailNiangua-no account filed
October 2003HailNiangua-no account filed
May 2003HailNiangua-no account filed
May 2003HailNiangua-no account filed
April 2001HailNiangua-no account filed
March 2000HailNiangua-no account filed
May 1996HailNiangua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Niangua Junction0.9 miles13
Johnston Ford2.7 miles13
Sampson3.8 miles13
Bracken4.1 miles13
Vance4.6 miles13
Marshfield5.2 miles13
Susanna5.4 miles12
Dermott5.6 miles13

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 NianguaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954277The 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 723350. 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.