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Stark City, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newtonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64866. The Survey maps it on the Stella quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Stark City within Newton County

On record in Stark City

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 1 record

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

Population over time

2 figures

Stark City fell from 139 to 125 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
2010139
2020125-14 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Stark City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 82 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 July 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 February 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 February 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230654-07353-02292020-1555
25 December 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 November 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 122 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 122 workings within 5 miles of Stark City: 122 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Old Devil MineZinc, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Culpepper DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Dorris & Cavender MineLeadPast Producer
Dungy MineZincPast Producer
Foster MineLeadPast Producer
Newtonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Shinn MineZincPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stark City in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 4 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindStark City$20,000no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindStark City$5,000no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindStark City$2,000no account filed
May 2022FloodStark City-State Highway 86 Was closed due to flooding.
July 2021Flash FloodStark City-Highway 86 was flooded and impassable between Harrison Avenue and Highway M.
July 2020HailStark City-Penny sized hail was reported.
June 2019Flash FloodStark City-Highway 86 near East Newton High School was closed due to flooding.
October 2019Heavy RainStark City-The Mesonet station EW7471 at Granby reported 3.88 inches of rainfall.
May 2019Heavy RainStark City-A public observer measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 3.38 inches.
August 2018HailStark City-Quarter sized hail was reported via social medial.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindStark City-This wind report was from a mesonet station E7471 about 2 miles southeast of Granby.
April 2013Flash FloodStark City-A section of Highway 86 was closed due to flooding between Newtonia and Stark City.
May 2013FloodStark City-The low water crossing at Highway 86 was flooded.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindStark City-Amateur radio relayed a report of 60 mph.
May 2010FloodStark City-A section of Highway 86 near Newtonia was flooded due to excessive rainfall.
May 2010FloodStark City-A section of Highway 86 near Newtonia was flooded due to excessive rainfall.
July 2009Flash FloodStark City-A slow moving storm complex with training thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall. Flooding occurred at a low water crossing near the intersections of Highway 86 and O on Teal Drive. The road was closed to through traffic by the Missouri Department of Transportation.
May 2006Flash FloodStark City-Flash flooding inundated a section of Highway 86 north of Stark City. The highway was shut down by law enforcement officials as it was considered impassable to motorists.
October 2003Thunderstorm WindStark City-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees across southeastern sections of Newton County near the community of Stark City.
May 2003HailStark City-no account filed
July 2003HailStark City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Newtonia1.0 miles11
Chester (historical)2.1 miles11
Wanda3.6 miles11
Cartmell (historical)4.1 miles11
Aroma4.2 miles16
Sweetwater4.9 miles16
Granby5.4 miles14
Monark Springs5.6 miles16

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 Stark CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954702The 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 727032. 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.