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Sedgewickville, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63781. The Survey maps it on the Sedgewickville quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Sedgewickville within Bollinger County

Population over time

2 figures

Sedgewickville grew from 173 to 191 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
2010173
2020191+18 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sedgewickville between 2013 and 2019, burning about 10 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 burning2

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 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2019Debris and open burning7.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179385-02359-03232019-1358

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedgewickville in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. The reports record 3 deaths and 2 injuries. 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
November 2019Flash FloodSedgewickville3 killed, 2 hurt, $50,000Flash flooding of two creeks resulted in two separate fatal incidents involving vehicles swept off roads. In the first incident, a vehicle carrying four people was swept away at the low water crossing of the Little Whitewater Creek on County Road 356. This location is several miles south of Sedgwickville. Two of the occupants lost their lives, and the other two were treated for injuries. The survivors were the 33-year-old male driver and a 2-year-old boy. Two young boys aged 5 and 8 years old were killed. The location of the flash flood fatalities was in a hilly area, where numerous low water crossings are prone to frequent inundation. A volunteer firefighter familiar with the area estimated the water depth was 3 to 4 feet where the driver of the SUV attempted to cross the creek. The injured victims were airlifted or taken by ambulance to regional hospitals with moderate to serious injuries. The victims were all members of the same family. In the second incident, a truck was swept away at the low water crossing of Upper Whitewater Creek on County Road 234. This location is a couple miles east of Sedgwickville. The 48-year-old male driver from Louisiana was killed. The vehicle was found upside down in the water.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Sedgewickville$200,000The south half of a roof was torn completely off, including the roof decking. A power pole was snapped. Debris was hanging in trees along the damage path. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted. At the end of the path, a mobile home was blown into a shed. Rescue crews had difficulty reaching a woman trapped inside the mobile home because of flooded roads. Both the shed and mobile home were demolished. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph. The average path width was 50 yards.
January 2023FloodSedgewickville-Yard flooding was reported.
August 2023Flash FloodSedgewickville-Several streets were flooded in Patton. Highway 34 was flooded in Marble Hill. Flash flooding of Crooked Creek inundated a park in Marble Hill. At the co-op station in Marble Hill, the 12-hour rainfall total ending late in the morning of the 3rd was 5.83 inches. The 36-hour rainfall total was 7.38 inches.
March 2020Flash FloodSedgewickville-Flooding was reported at EE Highway near County Road 238.
January 2020FloodSedgewickville-Numerous low water crossings were flooded from previous rainfall earlier in the day, including county roads 356, 366, 364, 234, 236, 400, 408, and 414. Missouri Highway V was covered by water.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSedgewickville-Trees were down across a highway.
April 2003HailSedgewickville-Dime size hail covered the ground.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSedgewickville-A tree was down in Marble Hill, and another was down several miles south of Sedgewickville.
April 2014HailSedgewickville-no account filed
May 2014HailSedgewickville-no account filed
February 2012HailSedgewickville-no account filed
March 2012HailSedgewickville-no account filed
April 2006HailSedgewickville-no account filed
May 2000HailSedgewickville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Bollinger Mill3.1 miles17
Lixville4.2 miles17
Mayfield4.8 miles19
Patton5.7 miles19
Alliance5.7 miles17
Patton Junction5.7 miles19
North Patton5.8 miles19
Precinct6.5 miles19

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 SedgewickvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1893577The 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 731648. 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.

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.