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Sheridan, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64486. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Sheridan within Worth County

Population over time

2 figures

Sheridan fell from 195 to 145 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
2010195
2020145-50 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sheridan between 2002 and 2013, burning about 105 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 burning3

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
23 March 2013Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 February 2002Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 February 2002Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sheridan: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindSheridan$8,000no account filed
June 2025Heavy RainSheridan-EM reports 6.11 inches of rain in Sheridan.
April 2024HailSheridan-Golf ball sized hail was reported east northeast of Sheridan.
May 2024HailSheridan-At 1420 CST, emergency management in Worth County Missouri reported 1.25 inch hail in the town of Sheridan.
June 2015Flash FloodSheridan-Water was flowing over Highway 246, just west of Sheridan.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSheridan-Law enforcement near Worth, Missouri reported a 60 to 70 mph wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSheridan-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Several large tree limbs were reported down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSheridan-6 inch tree limbs down.
June 2002HailSheridan-Several trees reported down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSheridan-The public reported large tree limbs down.
June 1998HailSheridan-The Worth County Sheriff's Office reported dime-size hail during a severe thunderstorm in Sheridan.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSheridan-A local radio station reported a wind gust to 65 MPH at Sheridan during a severe thunderstorm.
August 2015HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2015HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2015HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2015HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2015HailSheridan-no account filed
May 2011HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2006HailSheridan-no account filed
May 2004HailSheridan-no account filed
May 2002HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2002HailSheridan-no account filed
April 2001HailSheridan-no account filed
April 2001HailSheridan-no account filed
April 2001HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2000HailSheridan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Isadora5.0 miles12
Iona City (historical)5.2 miles12
Oxford7.7 miles11
Grant City10.9 miles12
Worth11.8 miles12
Irena11.9 miles13
Prohibition City12.8 miles12
Mount Waller13.0 miles12

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 SheridanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954609The 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 726334. 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.