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Old Appleton, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Apple Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63770. The Survey maps it on the Oak Ridge quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Old Appleton within Cape Girardeau County

On record in Old Appleton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Old Appleton fell from 85 to 73 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
201085
202073-12 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Old Appleton in 1996, burning about 1 acre 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 burning1

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
27 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Old Appleton: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Old Appelton Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ponder DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Ponder ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer
Shaft #2Lead, ZincPast Producer
Shaft #3Lead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Appleton in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 funnel cloud. 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 2013Funnel CloudOld Appleton-The funnel cloud was observed by at least one trained spotter and a sheriff deputy. The sheriff deputy observed the funnel from Interstate 55. A cell phone video was taken at an Interstate 55 exit showing a rope-like funnel cloud.

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Apple Creek1.7 miles24
Kimmelton (historical)2.7 miles18
Arnsberg3.9 miles18
Shawneetown4.5 miles24
New Wells5.5 miles26
Friedheim6.0 miles18
Concord (historical)6.3 miles24
Daisy6.6 miles18

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 Old AppletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963346The 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 739974. 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.