Portage Des Sioux, Missouri
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Rivers Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63373. It lies near Portage Island. The Survey maps it on the Elsah quadrangle. 335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 433 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPortage Des Sioux grew from 328 to 335 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 | 328 | |
| 2020 | 335 | +7 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 22 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.
- 1927 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1933 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:62500
- 1933 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Elsah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1991 USGS Elsah quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Portage Des Sioux between 2010 and 2011, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 11402002 |
| 5 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10305001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Portage Des Sioux: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Rivers Sand Pit No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Grafton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Western Whiting Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portage Des Sioux in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | $1,750,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and numerous tree limbs around town. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town as well as a few trees. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Portage Des Sioux | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Highway 94 near Orchard Farm and Portage Des Sioux and Route H between Boschertown and Portage Des Sioux. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Portage Des Sioux | - | Between 3 and 6 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils as the remnants of Hurricane Ike moved through the region causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded countywide including Highway N east of Highway K due to Dardenne Creek overflowing its banks. Also, water was flowing over Central School Road and McClay Road due to creeks out of their banks. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Portage Des Sioux | - | Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. The river peaked about 1 foot over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | - | Amateur radio spotters reported large tree limbs and power lines down in Portage Des Sioux. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Portage Des Sioux | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Portage Des Sioux | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Des Sioux | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machens | 1.6 miles | 22 | |
| Whitecorn | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Wilkie | 3.9 miles | 23 | |
| Black Walnut | 3.9 miles | 26 | |
| Beckett (historical) | 5.1 miles | 23 | |
| Marais Croche | 6.2 miles | 25 | |
| Orchard Farm | 6.4 miles | 23 | |
| West Alton | 7.6 miles | 27 |
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 Portage Des Sioux | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959094 | 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 756547. 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.











