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Summersville, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Carroll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65571. The Survey maps it on the Summersville quadrangle. 453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

Summersville within Texas County

Population over time

2 figures

Summersville fell from 502 to 453 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
2010502
2020453-49 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Summersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,618 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1
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
19 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 August 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 July 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverBYRANT
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220572-10163-07152020-1515
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177258-10163-07152018-1456
10 May 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Summersville: 11 past producers, 10 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Barker BankIronOccurrenceLimonite
Burton MineIronPast Producer1907
Folsom Alexander LandIronOccurrenceLimonite
Haggard LandIronOccurrenceLimonite
Jennie MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Lambert MineIronOccurrenceLimonite
Lilly Hollow MineIronPast Producer1907
Long and Colby BankIronPast ProducerLimonite
McKenzie Bank No. 2IronOccurrenceLimonite

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summersville in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 hail, 10 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
April 2026HailSummersville$250,000Hail to the size of ping pong balls were reported with impacts reported to roofs of homes and businesses, vehicles, equipment and outbuildings.
March 2015HailSummersville$50,000Golf ball size hail broke several car windshields.
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Summersville$30,000A NWS survey team found EF-0 damage with maximum winds of 85 mph south of Summersville in Texas County that later tracked into Shannon County. Multiple trees and limbs along the path were uprooted and/or snapped. Additionally, several roofs were damaged, including a barn roof that was partially removed, a metal roof that was removed from its building and blown away, and other buildings that suffered shingle damage.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSummersville$20,000Several trees were blown down on to some homes. A local grocery store lost a roof.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSummersville$20,000A barn was destroyed by downburst winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindSummersville$15,000Severe winds associated with a bowing segment of a squall line produced widespread wind damage in a six mile swath from 3 miles west and southwest of Summersville to areas south of Summersville. Roof damage to one home and damage to a trailer home was reported.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSummersville$10,000A large tree was reported down on power lines.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSummersville$5,000A business had damage to the roof in Summersville.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSummersville$5,000no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSummersville$2,000Several power lines were blown down in Summersville.
November 2024Heavy RainSummersville-Public report of a measured rainfall total of 4.84 inches located 1.49 miles south-southwest of Summersville.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindSummersville-A tree was reported uprooted along Highway JJ.
March 2017HailSummersville-This report was from social media with a picture.
July 2015Flash FloodSummersville-There was a high water rescue at Bethel Road and King Road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSummersville-The Karr Kare and convenience store in Summersville had customers report several trees down along a highway near the community.
March 2012HailSummersville-Dime to quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2018HailSummersville-no account filed
April 2017HailSummersville-no account filed
July 2013HailSummersville-no account filed
May 2006HailSummersville-no account filed
June 2006HailSummersville-no account filed
April 2005HailSummersville-no account filed
April 2005HailSummersville-no account filed
April 2003HailSummersville-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSummersville-no account filed
April 2002HailSummersville-no account filed
May 1996HailSummersville-no account filed
October 1996HailSummersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Midvale4.5 miles17
Hartshorn5.9 miles20
Pine Crest6.0 miles19
Arroll6.2 miles19
Harlow Ford7.8 miles19
Eunice7.9 miles17
Cardinal Acres8.6 miles19
Ratcliff Ford8.6 miles19

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 SummersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962755The 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 727291. 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.