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.
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
Buchanan County Infirmarylisted 2009
Everett Schoollisted 2005
Alois Herbert Double Houselisted 2007
John Sublett Jr. and Caroline Ashton Logan Houselisted 2007
McIntyre-Burri Houselisted 2005
Ryan Blocklisted 2013
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 76,780 | |
| 2020 | 72,473 | -4,307 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1924 USGS St. Joseph quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1926 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1926 USGS St. Joseph quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1971 USGS St. Joseph North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS St. Joseph North quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS St. Joseph North quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
190 words on this townshipHistory 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 1995Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Doniphan County | 017-108 |
| 10 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177644-01110-04102018-1806 |
| 26 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176135-01105-03162018-0200 |
| 15 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 28 |
| 14 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 27 |
| 7 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 165953-01180-01072018-1213 |
| 14 January 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 27 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| City Quarry #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Farmer & Dunn Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Heuemander Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Heumander Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton (historical) | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Kirschner | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lake Station | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Clair | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Saxton | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Kyle | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Matney | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Maxey | 6.7 miles | 18 |
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 Joseph | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q745120 | 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 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.










