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.
Population over time
2 figuresSumner 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 102 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -24 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2000Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2000 | Smoking | 380 acres | Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge | ESIDEPRAIR |
| 18 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 2000 | Smoking | 10 acres | Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge | TAYLORPOIN |
| 31 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178030-05827-10312018-1415 |
| 22 January 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Hail | Sumner | $50,000 | Large hail fell in a concentrated area damaging cars and roofs, while thousands of acres of crops were damaged or destroyed completely. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 34.29 feet, or 8.29 feet above flood stage. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 28.57 feet, or 2.57 feet above flood stage. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 32.64 feet, or 8.64 feet above flood stage. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 29.27 feet, or 3.27 feet above flood stage. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 35.12 feet, or 9.12 feet above flood stage. |
| April 2007 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 31.27 feet, or 5.27 feet above flood stage. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Sumner | - | Four to six inches of flowing water was over Highway 139. |
| February 2007 | Flash Flood | Sumner | - | Four to six inches of flowing water covered Highway 139. |
| February 2007 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 31.41 feet, or 5.41 feet above flood stage. |
| May 2006 | Flood | Sumner | - | The Grand River near Sumner crested at 26.73 feet, or 0.73 feet above flood stage. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Sumner | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Sumner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q645391 | The 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.






