Puxico, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Duck Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63960. The Survey maps it on the Puxico quadrangle. 873 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Puxico within Stoddard County

Population over time

2 figures

Puxico fell from 881 to 873 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	881
2020	873	-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1934 USGS Puxico quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Puxico quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Puxico quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Puxico between 1998 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Mingo National Wildlife Refuge	PIERMAN
8 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mingo National Wildlife Refuge	MONOPOLY MARSH OVERLOOK
8 April 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Mingo National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK
16 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178743-10399-03162019-1550
1 March 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Mingo National Wildlife Refuge	FOXPOND
11 December 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179580-10399-12112019-1440
11 December 2019	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179583-10399-12112019-1515
20 November 2019	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179508-10399-11202019-1300

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Puxico: 13 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Goforth Land	Iron	Occurrence
Hall Land	Iron	Occurrence
Harty Land	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Stoddard County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puxico in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 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
March 2008	Flood	Puxico	$1,800,000	Major flooding occurred, causing a number of road closures. Numerous roads were underwater. The Castor River experienced severe flooding. Four breaches were reported along a levee on the Castor River near Aquilla. The breaches were 12 to 25 feet in length. The resulting flooding forced emergency crews to rescue at least one family. The Castor River came up to the base of the Highway 25 bridge at Aquilla. West of Advance, the community of Greenbrier was flooded by the Castor River. Water was three and a half feet deep inside a church in Greenbrier, about six inches higher than the flood of 1982. The 1982 flood was considered the worst in memory for longtime local residents. Thousands of sandbags were stacked around Circle City. A business was sandbagged in Puxico. A pickup truck was swept off a street in Dexter. Another hard hit town was Advance, where at least a few homes were flooded when diversion channel ditches overflowed. Two water rescues were conducted, including one on Highway N near Bell City. A levee failed near Painton, washing the pavement off Highway O and flooding many acres of farmland. Countywide, at least 33 homes were damaged, and 12 others were destroyed.
July 1997	Flash Flood	Puxico	$250,000	Thunderstorms dumped an estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain. About 15 businesses were flooded by up to a foot of water. The sheriff department rescued a U.S. Postal Service worker who was trapped by high water. Several inches of water got into the town's bank and IGA supermarket. The flash flooding also washed out a bridge on a county road.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	$50,000	Trees were down on roads and homes in Dexter. Other trees were blown down between Puxico and Dexter. Power lines were also down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	$40,000	Numerous trees were blown down across the county. In Puxico, many branches and trees landed on roads, cars, and homes. At least 3 homes were damaged, mainly due to trees landing on them. At a golf course in Bloomfield, a golf cart house was destroyed, and a clubhouse roof was damaged. About 20 trees were blown down at the golf course, and several more were down in Bloomfield City Park.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	$25,000	Widespread damage to trees and power lines was reported across the northern part of the county.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	$6,000	A tree was blown down on a house.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	$2,000	Two large trees were uprooted.
March 2015	Heavy Rain	Puxico	-	Water was over Highway T. One lane was submerged.
April 2006	Hail	Puxico	-	A swath of large hail occurred across northern Stoddard County. Golf ball size hail fell three miles east of Puxico along Highway PP. Quarter size hail occurred two miles south of Swinton.
May 2006	Hail	Puxico	-	Quarter-size hail fell in Puxico. Golf-ball size hail fell on Highway PP two miles east of town.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	-	A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 MPH.
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	-	A couple of trees were blown down in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Puxico	-	Wind gusts to 60 MPH and half inch hail occurred.
August 1997	Hail	Puxico	-	Golf ball size hail was reported on County Road 254 just northeast of Puxico.
February 2007	Hail	Puxico	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Puxico	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Puxico	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Puxico	-	no account filed
April 2004	Funnel Cloud	Puxico	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Puxico	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Puxico	-	no account filed
March 1996	Funnel Cloud	Puxico	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stoddard 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mingo	2.4 miles	12
Hickman	3.6 miles	11
Cobb	3.7 miles	12
Asherville	3.8 miles	12
Idlewild	4.7 miles	19
Star	5.2 miles	12
Curdton	5.6 miles	11
Acorn Ridge	5.9 miles	11

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 Puxico	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969407	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 725011. 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.