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Syracuse, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65354. The Survey maps it on the Tipton quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Syracuse within Morgan County

Population over time

2 figures

Syracuse fell from 172 to 151 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
2010172
2020151-21 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Syracuse in 2014, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning2

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
18 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 February 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Syracuse: 22 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Barium-Barite, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Evans Barite ProspectLead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Hecht ProspectCoal, ZincPast Producer
Spring Branch ProspectLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Stodgel ShaftZincPast Producer
Zinc Creek MineBituminous, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Mcneil ProspectLeadPast Producer
Merrel MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Morrison Lead ProspectLeadPast Producer
Smucker Company MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Boaz DiggingsBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Syracuse in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2006Tornado (F1)Syracuse$10,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that a tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 135 and Highway 50, and tracked for about a mile damaging one home along with several trees.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$2,000Several power lines were blown down along Highway 50.
April 2026HailSyracuse-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2026HailSyracuse-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2023Flash FloodSyracuse-State Highway JJ at Richland Creek was flooded and impassable.
July 2014HailSyracuse-There were a couple of reports from the public of dime to penny sized hail.
September 2008Flash FloodSyracuse-Five to six inches of rain fell over Morgan County resulting in flooding of small streams and creeks. A couple of specific locations that flooded included a section of Tipton Road near its intersection with Highway 50, and a section of Highway 135 just south of Stover.
September 2008Flash FloodSyracuse-A tributary of Otter Creek flooded a section of Highway 50 west of Syracuse.
June 2007Flash FloodSyracuse-A section of Highway 5 north of Syracuse became impassable to motorists due to flash flooding.
March 2014HailSyracuse-no account filed
April 2011HailSyracuse-no account filed
May 2007HailSyracuse-no account filed
September 2003HailSyracuse-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Florence7.9 miles18
Aikinsville8.0 miles18
Glensted10.7 miles18
Pyrmont13.6 miles17
Excelsior15.5 miles19
Versailles16.6 miles23
Stover17.0 miles22
Marvin18.3 miles23

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 SyracuseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963337The 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 729823. 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.