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Oronogo, 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 64855. It stands on Bens Branch. The Survey maps it on the Webb City quadrangle. 2,558 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Oronogo within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Oronogo grew from 2,381 to 2,558 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
20102,381
20202,558+177 (+7%)

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

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Oronogo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 120 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
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
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
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
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190403-04955-04082020-1515
8 March 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 1994Debris and open burning71 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 455 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 455 workings within 5 miles of Oronogo: 452 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Sucker Flats PitClayPast Producer
Webb City Chat PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fenix MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1855, 1910
Unknown - Zn/PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
Carthage Consolidated Quarry Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Aylor Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oronogo in 33 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindOronogo$10,000A power pole was broken by high winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOronogo$10,000Several trees were blown onto powerlines and County Road 215 was blocked.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOronogo$10,000There was minor siding damage to a couple homes and a couple trees were blown down.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindOronogo$5,000Several power lines were blown down along Highway 43 east of Carl Junction.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindOronogo-High winds of 59 mph were measured by a home weather station.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindOronogo-A tree was reported down and laying on a city street.
April 2023HailOronogo-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOronogo-Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2021Flash FloodOronogo-Highway D was closed at Center Creek due to flooding.
March 2021HailOronogo-Penny sized hail was reported.
March 2021HailOronogo-Penny sized hail was reported.
May 2019FloodOronogo-Deputies advised that several roads were impassable north of Oronogo.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Oronogo-A National Weather Service storm survey determined that an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 81 mph traveled along an 8 mile path. This was the third in a series of tornadoes from a supercell. This tornado touched down on the north side of Oronogo, Missouri near the intersection of County Road 225 and Highway 96 and caused an intermittent path of varying tree damage northeastward before lifting near the intersection of County Road 160 and Nutmeg Lane. There was no apparent damage to structures.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOronogo-A large tree was reported down across the road blocking traffic.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOronogo-A tree was blown down across County Road 220 and Highway D.
June 2016HailOronogo-Quarter size hail was reported on social media.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindOronogo-A tree was blown down at 4th Street and Ivy Road in Oronogo.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindOronogo-A tree was reported blown down and blocked a roadway in Oronogo.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOronogo-A tree was down across a roadway.
March 2010FloodOronogo-Highway O was closed just south of the intersection of Highway D and Highway 96.
March 2010FloodOronogo-Highway O was closed just south of the intersection of Highway D and Highway 96.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOronogo-Trained spotters estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
November 2004Flash FloodOronogo-Heavy rains caused flooding over the intersection of Highway O and 96 near the community of Oronogo.
May 2018HailOronogo-no account filed
March 2017HailOronogo-no account filed
March 2017HailOronogo-no account filed
March 2017HailOronogo-no account filed
June 2009HailOronogo-no account filed
June 2009HailOronogo-no account filed
June 2009HailOronogo-no account filed
May 2003HailOronogo-no account filed
July 2003HailOronogo-no account filed
May 1998HailOronogo-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
Webb City2.9 miles17
Carterville3.1 miles17
Lakeside3.6 miles17
Airport Drive3.8 miles18
Gulfton4.0 miles18
Purcell4.2 miles17
Alba4.4 miles17
Brooklyn Heights4.7 miles17

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 OronogoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953778The 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 729941. 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.