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Rock Hill, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63119. It stands on Warson Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood quadrangle. 4,750 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Rock Hill within St. Louis County

On record in Rock Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rock Hill grew from 4,635 to 4,750 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
20104,635
20204,750+115 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rock Hill in 2007, burning under an acre 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/undetermined1

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
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Rock Hill: 46 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Perlite. 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
Delore Barite MillBarium-BariteProducer
Krummel and Buchner MineCoal, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
St Louis Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Grandview Mine Number SeventeenClayProducer
Highlands Mine Number FourClayPast Producer
Mine Number ElevenClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Hill in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindRock Hill-Several large tree limbs and trees were reported downed in a swath from Webster Groves/Shrewsbury southeast through Marlborough and Wilbur Park/Affton.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRock Hill-Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of large tree limbs in Webster Groves.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindRock Hill-There was a wide swath of sporadic damage due to thunderstorm winds which occurred over portions of Webster Groves. One area occurred along East Lockwood Avenue. At the Eden Theological Seminary, a large rotted tree was blown down along with several large branches. Several trees were also damaged on the northwest corner of the Webster University campus. Another large tree branch was down near the bus stop at the corner of East Lockwood Ave. and Bompart Avenue. Around three fourths of a mile further north, a large tree fell onto a house near the corner of North Bompart Ave. and Greeley Ave. Two blocks further to the north near the corner of North Bompart Ave. and Clark Ave., a large tree fell on a wooden deck which contained a storage room. A car and the corner of an adjacent house were also damaged. All other damage found during the survey consisted of small downed tree limbs.
May 2025HailRock Hill-no account filed
March 2025HailRock Hill-no account filed
March 2025HailRock Hill-no account filed
January 2012HailRock Hill-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRock Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Warson Woods0.3 miles22
Glendale0.8 miles22
Webster Groves1.5 miles23
Brentwood1.7 miles23
Huntleigh1.8 miles22
Oakland2.2 miles22
Kirkwood2.2 miles22
Lake Junction2.4 miles23

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 Rock HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961699The 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 756597. 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.