Qulin, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ash Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63961. The Survey maps it on the Glennonville quadrangle. 460 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Qulin within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Qulin grew from 458 to 460 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	458
2020	460	+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1940 USGS Valley Ridge quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Valley Ridge quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Glennonville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Qulin in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
April 2015	Flash Flood	Qulin	1 killed, $20,000	Flash flooding of drainage ditch number 1 for the Black River apparently caused a drowning fatality. A vehicle travelling along a small farm road parallel to the ditch got stuck in mud. The male victim was located several days later about 400 yards south of his pickup truck and six feet from the bank of the ditch. The search was suspended for about two days to allow the water to recede.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	2 hurt, $450,000	Much of the roof of an elementary school was blown off. Debris from the roof knocked down power lines. Some blocks on the west side of the building were knocked in, and a metal awning was smashed. Baseball field fencing and playground equipment were damaged. A window was blown out of a general store. Two children received minor cuts. A large uprooted tree fell on the corner of a mobile home, damaging the roof. Another tree fell on the front porch of a house, blocking the front door. A partially enclosed back porch was damaged. A small steeple was blown off a church, along with two pieces of siding. Tree limbs were down across town. Corn in a nearby field was flattened.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	$250,000	A shop building was destroyed. The rather large metal building had a covered open storage area on the north side. Nearby grain bins were dented.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	$20,000	The roof was removed from a mobile home. Trees and power lines were down on Highway 53. Most of the damage was sporadic straight line wind damage, except for a brief tornado touchdown at a residence on Highway 53.
August 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Qulin	$15,000	A brief EF-0 tornado touched down at a residence along Highway 53 northwest of Qulin. It lifted the front porch roof over the house. The porch roof was thrown westward, causing significant damage to the back side of the house roof before landing in the back yard. A few trees were snapped on the property as well. A funnel cloud was witnessed dipping up and down. Photos were taken of the funnel cloud. Peak winds were estimated to be 85 mph.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	$10,000	Roofing material was removed from a house and thrown into a nearby field.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	$6,000	The roofs were blown off a mobile home and a barn.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	$5,000	Power lines were down.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	$3,000	Multiple trees were downed by straight-line winds in Qulin. The highest measured gust in the area was 55mph, measured by a spotter.
May 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Qulin	$3,000	A non-supercell tornado or landspout touched down along State Highway HH, causing some minor damage. The landspout occurred on the back side of a strengthening thunderstorm. The door was blown off the south side of a shop building and landed on the west side of the shop. The door caught an electrical service wire and tore it down. Very small tree limbs were down. Based on a storm survey from county storm spotters, this EF-0 tornado proceeded southeast to near the community of Qulin.
March 2025	Hail	Qulin	-	Baseball size hail fell just northwest and north of Qulin.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Qulin	-	Trees were down, and roofs were damaged.
December 2015	Heavy Rain	Qulin	-	The co-operative observer measured a four-day storm-total rainfall of 7.30 inches.
October 2014	Funnel Cloud	Qulin	-	A rain-wrapped funnel cloud was reported by the general public.
September 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Qulin	-	Trained spotters reported a tornado on the ground from around Qulin to several miles northeast of Qulin. The tornado occurred over open farm country and caused no significant damage.
September 2006	Funnel Cloud	Qulin	-	The funnel cloud was sighted just off Highway 53.
January 1999	Hail	Qulin	-	Golf ball size hail fell near Qulin.
June 1997	Tornado (F0)	Qulin	-	Law enforcement personnel reported a funnel cloud briefly touched ground in open country. No damage was reported. Numerous funnel clouds were reported during the day, none of which were spawned by severe thunderstorms.
April 2021	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Qulin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Osborn	2.2 miles	9
Quercus	2.5 miles	9
Nyssa	3.0 miles	9
Oglesville	3.5 miles	13
Whitlow	3.8 miles	13
Platanus (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Broseley	5.5 miles	9
Carola	5.6 miles	13

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 Qulin	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q403681	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 735814. 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.

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.