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Powersville, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64672. It stands on West Fork Medicine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Powersville quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Powersville within Putnam County

Population over time

2 figures

Powersville fell from 60 to 42 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
201060
202042-18 (-30%)

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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Powersville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 185 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 May 2017Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 1997Smoking60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 1992Arson/incendiarism12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 February 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 February 2017Debris and open burning85 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powersville in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2016Thunderstorm WindPowersville$5,000There were a few tree limbs of unknown size and conditions and a few powerlines down in Powersville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPowersville-Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph in Powersville. A few large tree branches were downed.
July 2010Flash FloodPowersville-State Highway M was closed due to flooding along Medicine Creek.
May 2009Flash FloodPowersville-State Route M was closed due to flooding.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPowersville-8 inch tree limb down.
May 1997HailPowersville-A Putnam County resident reported half dollar -size hail 2 miles southwest of Powersville. The county sheriff office reported nickel-size hail coverering the ground at Lake Thunderhead.
September 2016HailPowersville-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPowersville-no account filed
April 2006HailPowersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Galesburg2.2 miles7
Wyreka2.3 miles7
Lucerne5.9 miles7
Saint John5.9 miles10
Terre Haute8.3 miles7
Midway8.9 miles7
West Liberty (historical)9.9 miles7
Quinn12.0 miles7

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 PowersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1962130The 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 735805. 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.