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.
Population over time
2 figuresPowersville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 42 | -18 (-30%) |
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 Powersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 March 1997 | Smoking | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 February 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 85 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | $5,000 | There were a few tree limbs of unknown size and conditions and a few powerlines down in Powersville. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | - | Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph in Powersville. A few large tree branches were downed. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Powersville | - | State Highway M was closed due to flooding along Medicine Creek. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Powersville | - | State Route M was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | - | 8 inch tree limb down. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Powersville | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Powersville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Powersville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galesburg | 2.2 miles | 7 | |
| Wyreka | 2.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lucerne | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Saint John | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Terre Haute | 8.3 miles | 7 | |
| Midway | 8.9 miles | 7 | |
| West Liberty (historical) | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Quinn | 12.0 miles | 7 |
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 Powersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1962130 | 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 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.




