Sweet Springs, Missouri
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Salt Pond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65351. It stands on Davis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Springs quadrangle. 1,316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.
On record in Sweet Springs
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 3 records
First Christian Churchlisted 1980- Sweet Springs Historic Districtlisted 1997
- Sweet Springs Historic District Boundary Decreaselisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresSweet Springs fell from 1,484 to 1,316 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 | 1,484 | |
| 2020 | 1,316 | -168 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 23 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.
- 1887 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Sweet Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Sweet Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Sweet Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Sweet Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Sweet Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Springs in 2014, burning about 118 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sweet Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McAllister Springs | 3.5 miles | 23 | |
| Emma | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| Cretcher | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Elmwood | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Herndon | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Blackburn | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Salt Springs | 10.9 miles | 16 | |
| Marshall Junction | 11.0 miles | 18 |
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 Sweet Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966294 | 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 729400. 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.












