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.
Population over time
2 figuresQueen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 598 | |
| 2020 | 562 | -36 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1911 USGS Queen City quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Queen City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Queen City NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Queen City quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190457-09822-09082019-0150 |
| 14 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190456-09822-07142019-1555 |
| 19 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190168-09843-03072020-1145 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Queen City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Queen City | $1,000 | Two power poles were snapped. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Queen City | - | Estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gusts were reported in Queen City. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Queen City | - | Social media photo of quarter size hail from Queen City. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Queen City | - | A gas station sign in Queen City was damaged due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Queen City | - | Numerous roads have water flowing over them between Lancaster and Queen City. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Queen City | - | State Route U was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Queen City | - | State Highway H was closed at Elm Creek, due to flash flooding. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Queen City | - | State Route U was closed due to flooding. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Queen City | - | Dime size hail covered the ground. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Queen City | - | Severe thunderstorm winds uprooted trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter in Queen City. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Queen 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 2005 | Hail | Queen City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Queen City | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Queen City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julesburg | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Greentop | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Clifton | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Germania | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Glenwood | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Lancaster | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Glenwood Junction | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Pronax (historical) | 11.0 miles | 9 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q955353 | 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 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.







