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Queen City, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63561. The Survey maps it on the Queen City quadrangle. 562 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Queen City within Schuyler County

Population over time

2 figures

Queen City fell from 598 to 562 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
2010598
2020562-36 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Queen City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190457-09822-09082019-0150
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190456-09822-07142019-1555
19 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 May 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190168-09843-03072020-1145

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Queen City: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queen City in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindQueen City$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindQueen City$1,000Two power poles were snapped.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gusts were reported in Queen City.
August 2024HailQueen City-Social media photo of quarter size hail from Queen City.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindQueen City-A gas station sign in Queen City was damaged due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Flash FloodQueen City-Numerous roads have water flowing over them between Lancaster and Queen City.
June 2014Flash FloodQueen City-State Route U was closed due to flooding.
July 2010Flash FloodQueen City-State Highway H was closed at Elm Creek, due to flash flooding.
May 2009Flash FloodQueen City-State Route U was closed due to flooding.
April 1999HailQueen City-Dime size hail covered the ground.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Severe thunderstorm winds uprooted trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter in Queen City.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindQueen City-The Schuyler County Sheriff's Office reported 2 large trees down in Queen City and several power poles blown down in Downing as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
September 2005HailQueen City-no account filed
May 1996HailQueen City-no account filed
May 1995HailQueen City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schuyler 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
Julesburg4.2 miles11
Greentop4.3 miles11
Clifton4.6 miles9
Germania4.9 miles9
Glenwood7.5 miles7
Lancaster8.0 miles7
Glenwood Junction8.5 miles7
Pronax (historical)11.0 miles9

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 Queen CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955353The 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 725021. 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.