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Sumner, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Cunningham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64681. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Sumner within Chariton County

Population over time

2 figures

Sumner fell from 102 to 78 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
2010102
202078-24 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 2000 and 2018, burning about 403 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
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
8 March 2000Smoking380 acresSwan Lake National Wildlife RefugeESIDEPRAIR
18 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 2000Smoking10 acresSwan Lake National Wildlife RefugeTAYLORPOIN
31 October 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178030-05827-10312018-1415
22 January 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sumner: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumner in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 8 flood, 2 hail, 2 flash 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 1994HailSumner$50,000Large hail fell in a concentrated area damaging cars and roofs, while thousands of acres of crops were damaged or destroyed completely.
December 2008FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 34.29 feet, or 8.29 feet above flood stage.
March 2008FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 28.57 feet, or 2.57 feet above flood stage.
April 2008FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 32.64 feet, or 8.64 feet above flood stage.
May 2008FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 29.27 feet, or 3.27 feet above flood stage.
March 2008FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 35.12 feet, or 9.12 feet above flood stage.
April 2007FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 31.27 feet, or 5.27 feet above flood stage.
March 2007Flash FloodSumner-Four to six inches of flowing water was over Highway 139.
February 2007Flash FloodSumner-Four to six inches of flowing water covered Highway 139.
February 2007FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 31.41 feet, or 5.41 feet above flood stage.
May 2006FloodSumner-The Grand River near Sumner crested at 26.73 feet, or 0.73 feet above flood stage.
June 2015HailSumner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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
Cunningham0.8 miles11
Mendon7.3 miles10
Whitham7.4 miles10
Snyder9.4 miles10
Rothville9.6 miles11
Triplett11.0 miles18
Newhall12.4 miles11
Newcomer12.7 miles11

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 SumnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q645391The 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 735873. 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.