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Shrewsbury, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63119. It stands on Shady Grove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Webster Groves quadrangle. 6,406 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Shrewsbury within St. Louis County

On record in Shrewsbury

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 3 records

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

Population over time

3 figures

Shrewsbury grew from 845 to 6,406 between 1920 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
1920845
20106,254
20206,406+152 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shrewsbury between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 March 2014Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot 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 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Shrewsbury: 59 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. 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
Delore Barite MillBarium-BariteProducer
Krummel and Buchner MineCoal, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
St Louis Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Parker-Russell Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory), CoalPast Producer
Tole and Thorp Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory), CoalPast Producer
Coffin MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No 7Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No.6Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Gilker Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Grandview Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shrewsbury in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
May 1996LightningShrewsbury$15,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindShrewsbury-Several large tree limbs were blown down in Shrewsbury.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindShrewsbury-Several power poles were broken and numerous trees were uprooted.
April 2000HailShrewsbury-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.

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
Lake Junction1.1 miles23
Webster Groves1.1 miles23
Mackenzie1.3 miles23
Marlborough1.4 miles23
Maplewood1.7 miles23
Brentwood2.0 miles23
Glendale2.2 miles22
Rock Hill2.5 miles22

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 ShrewsburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962845The 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 756717. 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.