Pomona, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Dry Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65789. The Survey maps it on the Pomona quadrangle. 440 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPomona fell from 511 to 440 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 | 511 | |
| 2020 | 440 | -71 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1945 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Willow Springs SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
108 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Pomona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 857 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 | 40 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | COMBINE #1 |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | LATE NIGHT |
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | GOAT |
| 14 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | P HIGHWAY |
| 30 August 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 August 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Pomona: 17 past producers, 9 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilkenny Lime Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| P T Henry Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| A.H. Livingston-Mine #2 | Iron | Past Producer | 1900, 1901 | |
| Dearson Mine | Iron | Occurrence | 1905 | |
| George Christopher Prospect | Iron | Prospect | 1942 | |
| Gilmour Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| H A Livingston Mine No 2 | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Kenneth Bryan Pits | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Landon D. Bryan Property | Iron | Occurrence | 1910 |
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomona in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Pomona | $300,000 | A tornado intermittently touched down over rural Howell County for 16 miles. Several homes were damaged along with numerous downed trees. The tornado affected areas near the communities of Pomona and Mountain View. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Pomona | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomona | $15,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed two barns in rural central Howell County. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Pomona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomona | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Pomona | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Pomona | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Pomona | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Pomona | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomona | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olden | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Burnham | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hutton Valley | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| White Church | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Grimmet | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Horton | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Willow Springs | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Trask | 9.7 miles | 12 |
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 Pomona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q923222 | 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 751693. 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.








