Paris, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65275. It stands on Payne Branch. The Survey maps it on the Paris West quadrangle. 1,161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

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Paris within Monroe County

On record in Paris

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 2 records

Paris Male Academylisted 1990
Union Covered Bridgelisted 1970

Population over time

2 figures

Paris fell from 1,220 to 1,161 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	1,220
2020	1,161	-59 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1890 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Paris West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Paris between 1992 and 2016, burning about 176 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 burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
19 August 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 August 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 July 1995	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 June 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 1992	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	135816-06949-04172016-2131
28 March 1992	Smoking	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Paris: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Central Stone Co. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gannaway Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 21 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Hail	Paris	$10,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$400	High wind gusts knocked down power lines and poles. Power outages were reported at the sheriff office.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$200	Several utility poles were blown down causing power outages.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped a pole off and lifted a shed into a home in town. Also, several power lines were blown down around town.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees across the intersection of Highway 15 and U.S. Highway 24, just north of Paris.
April 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Paris	-	Another tornado, about half a mile south of the first tornado, briefly touched down on County Road 835, half a mile north of the intersection with County Road 840. A barn sustained minor to moderate damage, where 2x4 missiles were driven into the roof of the barn. Width of damage was 30 to 40 yards wide with a path length of less than a tenth of a mile. The tornado was rated EF0.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs and blew over a picnic table destroying it.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Paris	-	Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads in Paris were flooded.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down around town.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines north of Paris.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a 2 foot and 1 foot diameter tree on Cooper Street. A large tree limb was also downed on the grounds of the Monroe County Courthouse. The "Stihl" sign in front of Ed's Hardware was blown down by the wind.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, tree branches and power lines in Paris.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Missouri Highway Department reported a tree down blocking the westbound lane of Route AA.
May 2002	Hail	Paris	-	Amateur radio spotters reported golfball size hail in Paris.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The County Sheriff reported trees down in Paris.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Sheriff Department reported trees uprooted in Paris.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	County Sheriff reported a few large trees down in town.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Amateur radio spotters reported trees down blocking Highway 15 south of Paris.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Monroe County Sheriff reported trees down in Paris.
June 2018	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fowkes	3.7 miles	18
Goss	3.9 miles	11
Holliday	6.8 miles	15
Strother	7.1 miles	16
Granville	7.6 miles	9
Stoutsville	8.8 miles	11
Leich Ford	9.1 miles	11
Victor	9.3 miles	16

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 Paris	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960025	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 724007. 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.