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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.

Pomona within Howell County

Population over time

2 figures

Pomona 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.

YearPeople Change
2010511
2020440-71 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

108 since 1992

Regional 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCOMBINE #1
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestLATE NIGHT
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresMark Twain National ForestGOAT
14 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestP HIGHWAY
30 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1993Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kilkenny Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
P T Henry ProspectLead, ZincProspect
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
A.H. Livingston-Mine #2IronPast Producer1900, 1901
Dearson MineIronOccurrence1905
George Christopher ProspectIronProspect1942
Gilmour MineIronPast Producer
H A Livingston Mine No 2IronPast Producer
Kenneth Bryan PitsIronProspect
Landon D. Bryan PropertyIronOccurrence1910

Every working recorded in Howell County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2005Tornado (F1)Pomona$300,000A 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 2001HailPomona$50,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPomona$15,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed two barns in rural central Howell County.
May 2006HailPomona-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPomona-no account filed
May 2004HailPomona-no account filed
May 2003HailPomona-no account filed
February 2000HailPomona-no account filed
May 2000HailPomona-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPomona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howell 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
Olden2.3 miles14
Burnham4.7 miles14
Hutton Valley6.7 miles14
White Church6.9 miles12
Grimmet7.7 miles13
Horton8.5 miles13
Willow Springs9.1 miles14
Trask9.7 miles12

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 PomonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q923222The 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.