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Triplett, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Triplett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65286. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick West quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Triplett within Chariton County

Population over time

2 figures

Triplett fell from 41 to 33 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
201041
202033-8 (-20%)

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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Triplett between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,112 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 September 2000Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,072 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190330-01749-03072020-1430

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Triplett in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 1999Tornado (F2)Triplett$600,000The Carroll County tornado continued northeast across Chariton County damaging or destroying several outbuildings near Mendon and 5 miles south of Marceline. In addition, a single family home suffered minor damage, and a mobile home was damaged 5 miles south of Marceline.
June 1994HailTriplett$50,000Large hail fell in a concentrated area damaging cars and roofs, while thousands of acres of crops were damaged or destroyed completely.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTriplett$50,000Large hail fell in an area seven miles wide and 15 miles long across the county in what some local residents claimed was the worst hail storm in 18 years. Farm vehicles and cars were heavily damaged with several roofs damaged beyond repair. High wind with the hail shattered windows, including 19 windows to one home alone, and destroyed thousands of acres of crops, leaving some fields completely wiped clean. A survey by the county's agricultural office indicated that 60,000 acres of crops were damaged overall with 40,000 completely destroyed. Several grain bins were also damaged.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTriplett-Large tree limbs were reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTriplett-Tin roof blown off an outbuilding.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTriplett-The Chariton County Sheriff's Office reported 8 grain bins destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds at a private farm in Tripplet. On another farm, 2 hog houses were destroyed by the damaging winds. The storms also knocked power out of most of the homes in the Tripplet community for 14 hours. Heavy rain and small hail accompanying the thunderstorms resulted in damage to a corn field just east of Tripplet.
May 2010HailTriplett-no account filed
June 2010HailTriplett-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindTriplett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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
Snyder2.8 miles10
Whitham3.7 miles10
Newcomer5.6 miles11
Brunswick6.2 miles18
Mendon7.1 miles10
Grand Port8.2 miles17
Missouri Village (historical)8.3 miles17
Indian Grove8.5 miles11

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 TriplettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q774001The 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 735889. 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.

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.