Saint Thomas, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65076. The Survey maps it on the Meta quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Thomas fell from 263 to 222 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 | 263 | |
| 2020 | 222 | -41 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Meta quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Meta quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lake Of The Ozarks quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Saint Thomas between 2005 and 2019, burning about 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 February 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178256-07614-02272019-0449 |
| 21 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 January 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Saint Thomas: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Jack Mine | Barium-Barite, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Borymeier Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Fe | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Iron | Iron | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teal (historical) | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Osage Bend | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Osage Bluff | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Henley | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Honey Creek | 6.6 miles | 17 | |
| Brazito | 7.0 miles | 19 | |
| Bass | 7.2 miles | 19 | |
| Hickory Hill | 7.9 miles | 19 |
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 Thomas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954826 | 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 725907. 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.










