Senath, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63876. The Survey maps it on the Senath quadrangle. 1,593 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSenath fell from 1,767 to 1,593 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 | 1,767 | |
| 2020 | 1,593 | -174 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1934 USGS Kennett quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Kennett quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Kennett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Senath quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
40 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Senath in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F3) | Senath | $1,500,000 | The tornado tracked east out of Greene County, Arkansas into Dunklin County, Missouri. The tornado then continued east into Pemiscot County, Missouri. Seven homes were destroyed and thirty-three homes were damaged. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $40,000 | Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines in Senath. In addition, roofs were blown off several buildings. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Senath | $20,000 | A weak tornado touched down in a field about 2 miles northeast of Senath and flipped over one section a center pivot irrigation system. The tornado then moved across the field and struck a barn causing moderate damage. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $10,000 | Straight-line winds peeled the roof of a garage and knocked several power poles down on Highway N and CR 649. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Senath | $10,000 | A home and a business were flooded. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $10,000 | Some trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | A large tree was knocked down on power lines in Senath. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | Some trees were blown down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | A couple of trees and power poles were knocked down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | A tractor trailer was overturned by thunderstorm winds. Several trees were also blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | Several trees were knocked down. One tree fell on a truck. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | Several large tree limbs were blown down. A few of these limbs damaged a home and a car. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Senath | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $2,000 | A storage shed was damaged. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $1,000 | Tree knocked down in Senath. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Senath | $1,000 | Hail damaged an auto windshield. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $1,000 | Straight line winds blew a shed down in Senath. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $1,000 | A privacy fence was blown down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $1,000 | A couple of trees were blown down. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Senath | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Senath | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Senath | $760 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | $500 | Large tree down at baseball field. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Senath | $100 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Senath | $10 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Senath | $10 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Senath | - | Quarter sized hail fell on the north side of Senath. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Senath | - | Quarter-sized hail reported in Senath. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Senath | - | Nickel size hail reported between Senath and Kennett. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Senath | - | Highway P in Senath is impassable due to flooding near the Dollar General store. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Senath | - | Main Street in Senath flooded. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | - | Straight line winds knocked a tree on to a house in Senath causing structural damage. A couple of trees were also knocked down in Kennett. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | - | Straight line winds caused damage across parts of Southern Dunklin County. Two irrigation systems and the roof of a mobile home were damaged in Senath. An irrigation system was damaged and a roof was blown off a mobile home in Hornersville. The mobile home also had window damage. In the Rives community, the side of a mobile home was caved in, windows were broken and a screened in porch was damaged. A pop up camper was destroyed and a meter box was torn from the side of the mobile home. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Senath | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Senath | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Senath | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Senath | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Senath | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Senath | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960374 | 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 726200. 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.
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.







