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Salisbury, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Salisbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65281. The Survey maps it on the Salisbury quadrangle. 1,563 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

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Salisbury within Chariton County

On record in Salisbury

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Salisbury fell from 1,618 to 1,563 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
20101,618
20201,563-55 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

138 words on this township

Historical, Pictorial and Biographical Record, of Chariton County, Missouri, published 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Salisbury Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Salisbury Township - 138 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury between 2014 and 2018, burning about 97 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
6 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122170-02155-03062015-1523
16 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation122171-02155-03162015-1202
13 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation122172-02155-03132015-1609
11 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 February 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 February 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177065-02155-02162018-1054

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Salisbury: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - SandstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salisbury in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 23 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$20,000An NWS co-op observer reported downed trees up to 2 feet in diameter, as well as a metal roof torn off a building.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$10,000A barn and shed were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$10,000Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a residence and toppled several trees nearby.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$5,000Law enforcement officials reported downed power lines at the junction of US 24 and SR 5.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Two wooden power poles were blown down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$1,000Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds east of Salisbury, knocking down several trees.
March 2023HailSalisbury-A supercell produced 1 hail in Salisbury in Chariton County.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Damage of a structure in Salisbury.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Roof damage was reported to a structure in Salisbury due to strong winds as the leading edge of a squall line moved through.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Wind gusts up to 65 mph with tree limbs downed across Salisbury.
June 2020FloodSalisbury-State Highway NN was closed due to flooding.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Dispatch reported a tree down in Salisbury.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-A 12 inch diameter tree limb was down in Salisbury.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Numerous trees were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2005Flash FloodSalisbury-Street flooding reported thoughout town.
June 2003Flash FloodSalisbury-Water over Highway 24 and Highway 129.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-The sheriff's department transmission tower was blown down.
February 2017HailSalisbury-no account filed
February 2017HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2014HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2014HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2014HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2014HailSalisbury-no account filed
May 2012HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2010HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2010HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2010HailSalisbury-no account filed
May 2008HailSalisbury-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
May 2004HailSalisbury-no account filed
May 2004HailSalisbury-no account filed
April 2003HailSalisbury-no account filed
March 2003HailSalisbury-no account filed
May 2003HailSalisbury-no account filed
May 2003HailSalisbury-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
June 2003HailSalisbury-no account filed
June 2003HailSalisbury-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
June 2001HailSalisbury-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
April 1999HailSalisbury-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-no account filed
April 1993HailSalisbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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
Shannondale5.1 miles15
Eccles5.7 miles15
Oil City6.0 miles15
Keytesville7.3 miles15
Prairie Hill7.4 miles9
Forest Green7.8 miles15
Rockford8.0 miles15
Chraneville (historical)9.6 miles9

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 SalisburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960104The 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 725956. 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.