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Sibley, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fort Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64088. It stands on Beasley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buckner quadrangle. 314 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Sibley within Jackson County

On record in Sibley

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sibley fell from 357 to 314 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
2010357
2020314-43 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

In the county-history sources

3,445 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Fort Osage Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Colonel James Chiles lived west of Sibley about four miles, and Frank Chiles, his brother, lived on an adjoining farm. Both were prominent men in the county, James especially, was a politician and held many important offices. James Chiles now lives in Texas, being a man of eighty-five years of age. He came from Kentucky when a young man and became one of the first settlers in Fort Osage township.

Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.

Col. John Hambright was an early settler about two and a half miles south- of Sibley. He Hved on the State road and kept a stage station, till there was no more use for stages. He died there about six years ago.

Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.

Col. A. G. Steele came in 1854, and settled one mile east of Sibley, where he still resides. Samuel Johnson, William Sailors, James Johnson, Nathaniel Teaugus, Lewis Jones, Joseph R. Walker, Joel P. Walker, Ex-Governor Boggs, and others were among the prominent early settlers.

Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Fort Osage Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sibley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177818-02412-08032018-1105
7 May 2018Debris and open burning1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177239-02412-05072018-0423
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning4.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176663-04828-04232018-1634
16 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178717-04828-04162019-1300

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sibley: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Buckner MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Orrick Quarry and MilStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Winfrey MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sibley in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
May 2007FloodSibley$750,000The Missouri River at Sibley crested at 32.80 feet on May 8, 2007, or 10.80 feet above flood stage. This was the third highest crest ever.|Several homes were flooded.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindSibley$150,000NW Electric COOP reported $150,000 in damage.
March 2006Tornado (F0)Sibley$1,000Tornado touched down 1 mile northwest of Sibley in rural areas at 0915 CST...with damage to trees and power lines noted. The tornado crossed into Ray county at 0915 CST...2 miles north northeast of Sibley.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindSibley-Multiple trees were down on roadways near Sibley. A full 110 gallon water tank was thrown several yards from its original resting place.
May 2016HailSibley-This report was gathered via social media.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSibley-Jackson County Sheriff reported 2 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs and power lines were down from strong winds.
May 2016HailSibley-Three inch hail was reported at the Jackson County Sheriffs Office.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSibley-A large tree of unknown size and condition was down on a car in Sibley.
May 2014Tornado (EF2)Sibley-A tornado formed near the Jackson and Ray County line along the Missouri River. The tornado crossed into Ray County about 2 minutes after forming in wooded areas along the river.
May 2007FloodSibley-The Missouri River near Sibley crested at 24.70 feet, or 2.70 feet above flood stage.
June 2008HailSibley-no account filed
April 2003HailSibley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Buckner3.2 miles20
Levasy4.4 miles20
Lake City5.7 miles23
Atherton6.0 miles24
Blue Mills6.2 miles24
Hiler7.1 miles21
Ripley7.1 miles24
Cobbler7.2 miles24

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 SibleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2692498The 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 735854. 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.