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Paynesville, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Calumet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63336. It lies near Owens Knob. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Paynesville within Pike County

On record in Paynesville

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

Paynesville fell from 77 to 60 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
201077
202060-17 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Paynesville between 1992 and 2006, burning about 28 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 March 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 February 2006Recreation and ceremony20 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 January 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paynesville: 1 past producer. None of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Roberts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paynesville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 WindPaynesville-Thunderstorm winds damaged the siding and roof of a single family home. A large tree was also split in half, but the center of the tree was rotted and half of the tree was leafless.
April 2010HailPaynesville-Golfball sized hail damaged a greenhouse at Clopton High School and also caused siding and roof damage to several buildings on campus.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindPaynesville-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Paynesville...along Highway H.
April 2010HailPaynesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Sledd2.2 miles13
Kissenger3.7 miles16
Annada3.9 miles16
Starkdale (historical)4.3 miles16
Eolia6.0 miles16
Calumet7.4 miles18
Clarksville7.5 miles17
Roblee8.4 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 PaynesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1960356The 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 729602. 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.