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Sappington, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gravois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63126. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood quadrangle. 7,995 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Sappington within St. Louis County

On record in Sappington

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Sappington grew from 7,580 to 7,995 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
20107,580
20207,995+415 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sappington between 2007 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 February 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Sappington: 18 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Alpha Portland Cement PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lemay QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mutual QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osage Hills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Steffern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sappington in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSappington$600,000There were numerous reports of tree limbs and power poles broken with power lines down. There was one report of a traffic line blown down. Some reported shingles blown off of roofs, while one reported their entire roof had blown off. There were also reports of multiple large trees snapped and uprooted around the area with one falling on a home. Communities within the path of this storm were Valley Park, Fenton, Sunset Hills, Sappington, Concord, Mehlville, and Oakville.
July 2023Flash FloodSappington-Up to 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time, mainly over southern portions of St. Louis County, causing flash flooding. Several secondary roads had water over them. Also, Mattesse Creek, rose to 12 feet, a foot above Flood Stage.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSappington-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSappington-Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a mobile home.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindSappington-Thunderstorm winds blew down the sign for Ronnies 20 Cinema, as well as street signs on Lindbergh Blvd. Also, several interstate signs on I-270 were bent and twisted by the winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSappington-Thunderstorm winds blew down a two foot diameter tree near the intersection of Lindbergh Blvd. and Watson Road.
May 2008HailSappington-Trained spotters reported 3/4 inch hail in the Sunset Hills area.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSappington-A 3 foot diameter tree was blown down near the intersection of Lindbergh Blvd. and Gravois Ave.
May 2004HailSappington-Storm spotters reported that nickel size hail fell for about 2 minutes in the Concord Village area.
April 2001HailSappington-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
March 2025HailSappington-no account filed
April 2016HailSappington-no account filed
January 2012HailSappington-no account filed
April 2011HailSappington-no account filed
April 2011HailSappington-no account filed
May 2011HailSappington-no account filed
April 2010HailSappington-no account filed
April 2007HailSappington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Crestwood1.4 miles22
Sunset Hills1.5 miles22
Concord1.5 miles23
Grantwood Village1.6 miles23
Meacham Park2.1 miles22
Grantwood2.2 miles23
Lakeshire2.4 miles23
Green Park2.4 miles23

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 SappingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956340The 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 756691. 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.