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Saint Joseph, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64501. It stands on Roys Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joseph North quadrangle. 72,473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Saint Joseph within Buchanan County

On record in Saint Joseph

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Joseph fell from 76,780 to 72,473 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
201076,780
202072,473-4,307 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

190 words on this township

History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 190 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph between 1995 and 2018, burning about 827 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
14 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDoniphan County017-108
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177644-01110-04102018-1806
26 March 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 March 2018Debris and open burning22 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176135-01105-03162018-0200
15 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service28
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service27
7 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation165953-01180-01072018-1213
14 January 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Saint Joseph: 25 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
St Joseph DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Farmer & Dunn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Heuemander QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Heumander QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buchanan 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
Ashton (historical)3.3 miles18
Kirschner4.2 miles18
Lake Station5.2 miles18
Clair5.5 miles17
Saxton5.6 miles18
Kyle5.7 miles18
Matney5.9 miles18
Maxey6.7 miles18

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 JosephAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q745120The 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 730205. 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.