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Saint James, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in St. James Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65559. The Survey maps it on the Maramec Spring quadrangle. 3,935 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Saint James within Phelps County

On record in Saint James

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint James fell from 4,216 to 3,935 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
20104,216
20203,935-281 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Saint James between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230757-08110-09302020-1720
6 June 1994Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Saint James: 69 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Dillon Storage Shed & PitClayProducer
Rosati StoneFlagstoneProducer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
C O Parry ProspectIronProspect
Cooper MineIronPast Producer
Hendrickson BankIronPast Producer
James MineIronPast Producer
Jerry Cooper MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps 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
Schundler1.1 miles18
Flag Spring2.0 miles18
Boys Town of Missouri2.1 miles22
Dillon4.8 miles23
Rosati4.9 miles18
Meramec Springs (historical)5.1 miles22
Dean Ford5.4 miles23
De Camp (historical)6.8 miles22

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 Saint JamesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958737The 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 729639. 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.