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Risco, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Como Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63874. The Survey maps it on the Parma quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Risco within New Madrid County

Population over time

2 figures

Risco fell from 346 to 286 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
2010346
2020286-60 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Risco in 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

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
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230739-07254-09272020-1640
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220583-07254-08042020-1555
7 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190416-07254-04072020-2025
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190441-07254-04112020-1825
5 December 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251151-07254-12052020-1805
1 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230762-07254-10012020-1100

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Madrid County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Risco: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnkIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in New Madrid County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Risco in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 3 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 1996Thunderstorm WindRisco$75,000no account filed
May 2024Funnel CloudRisco-Several reports of cold air funnel observations were made in Risco.
August 2013Heavy RainRisco-A trained spotter measured 1.8 inches of rain. Ditches were full.
May 2013HailRisco-Penny-size hail was reported, along with wind gusts around 40 mph.
July 1998Funnel CloudRisco-Spotters indicated a funnel cloud came very near to touching ground. This funnel cloud was on the leading edge of a line of thunderstorms. This indicates it was a "gustnado" type of phenomenon.
June 1994Tornado (F0)Risco-A tornado touched down near Risco but moved very slowly. No damage was reported since it touched down in open fields.
May 2019Funnel CloudRisco-no account filed
September 2012HailRisco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Madrid 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
Forest Spur0.9 miles9
Tallapoosa3.1 miles9
Parma4.2 miles9
Baderville4.3 miles11
Lorwood4.4 miles9
Crumpecker (historical)4.6 miles9
Wila (historical)4.7 miles9
Melby4.8 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 RiscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967965The 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 725322. 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.