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.
Population over time
2 figuresPollock 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 89 | |
| 2020 | 46 | -43 (-48%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Pollock quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179598-00000-04192019-2030 |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 29 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 229 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179608-10547-03222019-1725 |
| 20 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 January 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Hail | Pollock | $3,000 | Car and home windows were shattered by the large hail. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pollock | - | Power lines and trees were down across Sullivan County, specifically in this case near Pollock. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Pollock | - | A funnel cloud was reported over Highway B east of Highway 5 and lasted less than a minute. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Pollock | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Pollock | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boynton | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Jacksonville | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Brown (historical) | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Pennville | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Bairdston | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Judson | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Green City | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Sorrell | 10.5 miles | 8 |
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 Pollock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2620484 | 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 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.




