Rothville, Missouri
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Yellow Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64676. It stands on East Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rothville quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRothville fell from 99 to 63 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 | 99 | |
| 2020 | 63 | -36 (-36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1949 USGS Rothville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Rothville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rothville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 258 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 April 1992 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | 125 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge | SCHMIDT 1 |
| 15 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.6 acres | Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge | SCHMIDT 2 |
| 1 February 1992 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 December 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 January 1992 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
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 Rothville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rothville in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rothville | - | Emergency management reported outbuildings damaged near JJ and Twitchell Road. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Rothville | - | Route E was closed in both directions near Rothville. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Rothville | - | State Route E was closed due to flooding by nearby creeks. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Rothville | - | State Route E near Yellow Creek and State Route O near Bee Creek, were reported closed due to flooding. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Rothville | - | Highway 11 at Yellow Creek closed due to high water. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Rothville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Rothville | - | 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.
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 Rothville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672229 | 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 725590. 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.






