Parma, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Como Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63870. The Survey maps it on the Parma quadrangle. 555 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 279 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresParma fell from 713 to 555 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 | 713 | |
| 2020 | 555 | -158 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1940 USGS Malden quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Malden quadrangle1:62500
- 1978 USGS Parma quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Parma between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230739-07254-09272020-1640 |
| 4 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220583-07254-08042020-1555 |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190416-07254-04072020-2025 |
| 11 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190441-07254-04112020-1825 |
| 5 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 251151-07254-12052020-1805 |
| 1 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230762-07254-10012020-1100 |
| 6 January 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parma in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | $150,000 | At Parma, winds estimated around 60 mph blew a portion of roof off the community center. One section of brick wall was blown down on a building being demolished. Several homes had shingle damage. A metal building had the door blown off. Near Matthews, a couple of grain bins were damaged or destroyed. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | $10,000 | Scattered trees and power lines were down, mainly in northern parts of New Madrid County. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were down. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | $8,000 | Power lines were down throughout the community of Parma. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | $5,000 | Numerous power outages occurred in central and west sections of the county, associated with locally damaging winds. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | $5,000 | Power lines and a tree were blown down. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Parma | - | A weak tornado touched down intermittently over open farm country between Risco and Parma. Spotters and police officers visually tracked the tornado for about 10 minutes as it moved slowly southwest. No damage occurred. The parent shower or thunderstorm moved slowly west. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Parma | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Parma | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wila (historical) | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Lorwood | 2.1 miles | 9 | |
| Crumpecker (historical) | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Como | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Melby | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Risco | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Nordlow (historical) | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hondin (historical) | 4.6 miles | 11 |
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 Parma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967838 | 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 724048. 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.
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.




