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Tightwad, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Leesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64735. The Survey maps it on the Leesville quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Tightwad within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Tightwad fell from 69 to 58 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
201069
202058-11 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Tightwad between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,028 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 were 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined138 acresMissouri Department of ConservationRACKET
15 August 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1994Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 August 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 July 2018Fireworks17 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177369-04209-07092018-1829
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use18 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177368-04209-07052018-1336
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tightwad: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Charles Millers LandIronPast Producer
Palo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls. PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tightwad in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTightwad$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Several 10 to 12 inch in diameter tree limbs were knocked down. Garage doors were blown in, and part of a metal roof was curled back.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTightwad-Survey suggests 85 mph straight line winds along Route Z in far SE Henry County (east of Finey Church) caused widespread straight line wind damage, snapping large tree branches and even a few trunks.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTightwad-Public report of several trees down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTightwad-Strong winds took out the spotter's weather station and brought down several tree limbs approximately 5 to 7 inches in diameter.
January 2008HailTightwad-Pea to dime sized hail was observed by a trained spotter.
June 2007Flash FloodTightwad-Highway 7 was closed due to high water.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindTightwad-Trees were uprooted and downed in Tightwad.
March 2021HailTightwad-no account filed
May 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
February 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
February 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
May 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
March 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
March 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
March 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
March 2017HailTightwad-no account filed
August 2011HailTightwad-no account filed
April 2003HailTightwad-no account filed
May 2003HailTightwad-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTightwad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Leesville2.7 miles18
Coal3.8 miles18
Hortense4.5 miles18
Finey5.2 miles19
Roseland5.8 miles17
Gaines6.3 miles18
Alberta7.5 miles18
Mount Zion8.0 miles20

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 TightwadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2375092The 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 741321. 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.