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.
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
Cummins & Co. Meloan General Storelisted 1993
Population over time
2 figuresPaynesville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 77 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -17 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1930 USGS Nebo quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Nebo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1934 USGS Nebo quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Nebo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 February 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 January 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberts Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paynesville | - | 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 2010 | Hail | Paynesville | - | Golfball sized hail damaged a greenhouse at Clopton High School and also caused siding and roof damage to several buildings on campus. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paynesville | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Paynesville...along Highway H. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Paynesville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sledd | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Kissenger | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Annada | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Starkdale (historical) | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Eolia | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Calumet | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Clarksville | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Roblee | 8.4 miles | 17 |
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 Paynesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1960356 | 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 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.








