Rutledge, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Sand Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63563. The Survey maps it on the Rutledge quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.
On record in Rutledge
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
- Rutledge Schoollisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresRutledge fell from 109 to 86 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 | 109 | |
| 2020 | 86 | -23 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1903 USGS Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Rutledge quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rutledge between 2014 and 2020, burning about 117 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 122211-09944-04102015-1930 |
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 133862-09917-03052016-1517 |
| 30 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 200547-09917-03302020-1711 |
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 145246-09944-11172016-1230 |
| 17 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 145247-09944-11172016-1620 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rutledge: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rutledge in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Rutledge | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Lightning | Rutledge | $150,000 | A lightning strike is believed to have sparked a fire that destroyed the Harmony Grove Baptist Church in rural Scotland County during the late evening of June 12 or early morning of June 13. The fire was reported around 1:30 am, at which time it was in its later stages of burning. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Rutledge | $150,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | $5,000 | The county sheriff reported power poles and lines down. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Rutledge | - | The same storm that produced golf ball size hail earlier, produced more golf ball size hail again. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | A trained spotter reported some 6 inch in diameter tree branches were down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | A few 12 to 16 inch diameter trees were blown down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | Hail up to the size of peas also reported. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 50 to 60 mph at Rutledge, IA around 6 pm on June 1. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be between 50 and 60 mph in Rutledge, MO.| |
| August 2005 | Hail | Rutledge | - | Dime to penny sized hail. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Rutledge | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Rutledge | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Rutledge | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Rutledge | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Rutledge | - | 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 Rutledge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962927 | 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 725692. 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.





