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Sugar Creek, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Blue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64054. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle. 3,271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Sugar Creek within Jackson County

On record in Sugar Creek

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

Sugar Creek fell from 3,345 to 3,271 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
20103,345
20203,271-74 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

6,365 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 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Blue Township covers organized may 23, 1827, at first it included land in what is cass and bates counties, present boundaries and phyiscal features, blue township a favored locality, names of the pioneers, what the pioneers themselves say of early days.

Read the chapter on Blue Township - 6,365 words.

Fires near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Creek: 41 past producers, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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
Santa Fe QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sugar Creek Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
City Wide SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holliday Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Randolph DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alrok Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Creek in 20 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek$2,000Powerlines were reported down, around Kaufman and Arrowhead stadiums. Trees were also reported blown onto Interstate 435.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-Power lines downed near Sugar Creek.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-Downed power lines with power outages in Sugar Creek.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-Numerous trees were down at Kentucky and Sterling. It is unknown the size or condition of the trees.
October 2018Flash FloodSugar Creek-Numerous roads were flooded in Sugar Creek.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-At Highway 24 and Arlington Road a 4.5 inch tree limb was down, as well as multiple power lines.
August 2017Flash FloodSugar Creek-Cars were reported in high water at 4200 Gardner Ave.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-A tree of unknown size or condition was down on a house near South Home Avenue.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph.
August 2010HailSugar Creek-One inch hail was reported near the intersection of Winner Road and Blue Ridge Boulevard.
April 2008Flash FloodSugar Creek-Water was reported running over the road at the intersection of Gardner and Chouteau Parkway.
July 2008Flash FloodSugar Creek-One to two feet of water was over Chouteau Trafficway near Front Street.
March 2017HailSugar Creek-no account filed
May 2016HailSugar Creek-no account filed
August 2011HailSugar Creek-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudSugar Creek-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSugar Creek-no account filed
February 2007HailSugar Creek-no account filed
June 2006HailSugar Creek-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
Fairmount1.0 miles26
Maywood1.0 miles26
Bristol1.3 miles26
Mount Washington1.3 miles26
Englewood1.7 miles26
Rock Creek Junction1.9 miles26
Independence2.0 miles26
Athol2.1 miles26

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 Sugar CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954196The 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 727219. 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.