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Pollock, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63560. The Survey maps it on the Pollock quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Pollock within Sullivan County

Population over time

2 figures

Pollock fell from 89 to 46 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
201089
202046-43 (-48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pollock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 315 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 April 2014Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2019Debris and open burning2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179598-00000-04192019-2030
10 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 March 2014Debris and open burning27 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined229 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179608-10547-03222019-1725
20 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 February 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 January 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pollock in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2008HailPollock$3,000Car and home windows were shattered by the large hail.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPollock-Power lines and trees were down across Sullivan County, specifically in this case near Pollock.
June 2014Funnel CloudPollock-A funnel cloud was reported over Highway B east of Highway 5 and lasted less than a minute.
September 2005HailPollock-no account filed
April 2001HailPollock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Boynton5.2 miles7
Jacksonville5.8 miles7
Brown (historical)5.9 miles11
Pennville7.3 miles11
Bairdston7.8 miles7
Judson8.4 miles7
Green City9.4 miles11
Sorrell10.5 miles8

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 PollockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2620484The 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 735801. 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.