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.
Population over time
2 figuresSyracuse 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 172 | |
| 2020 | 151 | -21 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1888 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Tipton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 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
- 1982 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2014Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evans Barite Prospect | Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Hecht Prospect | Coal, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Spring Branch Prospect | Lead, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Stodgel Shaft | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Zinc Creek Mine | Bituminous, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Mcneil Prospect | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Merrel Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Morrison Lead Prospect | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Smucker Company Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Boaz Diggings | Barium-Barite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Syracuse | $10,000 | A 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Syracuse | $2,000 | Several power lines were blown down along Highway 50. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Syracuse | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Syracuse | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Syracuse | - | State Highway JJ at Richland Creek was flooded and impassable. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Syracuse | - | There were a couple of reports from the public of dime to penny sized hail. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Syracuse | - | 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Syracuse | - | A tributary of Otter Creek flooded a section of Highway 50 west of Syracuse. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Syracuse | - | A section of Highway 5 north of Syracuse became impassable to motorists due to flash flooding. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Syracuse | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Syracuse | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Syracuse | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Syracuse | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence | 7.9 miles | 18 | |
| Aikinsville | 8.0 miles | 18 | |
| Glensted | 10.7 miles | 18 | |
| Pyrmont | 13.6 miles | 17 | |
| Excelsior | 15.5 miles | 19 | |
| Versailles | 16.6 miles | 23 | |
| Stover | 17.0 miles | 22 | |
| Marvin | 18.3 miles | 23 |
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 Syracuse | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963337 | 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 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.







