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.
Population over time
2 figuresNiangua 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 405 | |
| 2020 | 390 | -15 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1946 USGS Niangua quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Niangua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Niangua quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | 77 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177491-11204-07042018-2252 |
| 11 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177492-11204-07112018-2147 |
| 7 May 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220562-11204-05072020-1210 |
| 4 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 137212-11203-04042016-1746 |
| 4 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178659-11204-04032019-1527 |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177118-11204-04202018-1320 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Webster County Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Niangua | 3 hurt | Excessive 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 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Niangua | $750,000 | A 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | $50,000 | Several mobile homes were blown off their piers in a trailer park on Plank School Road. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | $5,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees and caused minor roof damage northeast of Marshfield. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | $5,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts caused minor roof damage to a home along with downing several trees. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | $5,000 | Outbuildings, trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | $1,500 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Niangua | - | Significant street flooding occurred in the city of Marshfield with numerous road closures in and around the city. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Niangua | - | Mping report of golf ball size hail. Damage estimates for the Marshield area during this evening are included elsewhere in this report. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | - | A few large trees were down along Highway M. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Niangua | - | Dime to nickel size hail was reported near Niangua. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Niangua | - | There was a high water rescue with a truck stranded in high water on Highway CC in Webster County near Niangua. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Niangua | - | Highway DD, east of town was reported as flooded and impassable. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niangua | - | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees in the community of Niangua. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Niangua | - | no account filed |
| October 2003 | Hail | Niangua | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Niangua | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Niangua | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Niangua | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Niangua | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Niangua | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niangua Junction | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Johnston Ford | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Sampson | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bracken | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Vance | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Marshfield | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Susanna | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Dermott | 5.6 miles | 13 |
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 Niangua | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954277 | 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 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.






