BlockVanduser, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Morley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63784. The Survey maps it on the Vanduser quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVanduser fell from 267 to 183 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 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 183 | -84 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1931 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Vanduser quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Vanduser between 1996 and 2018, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177433-10393-04142018-1130 |
| 20 December 1996 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vanduser in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2025 | Tornado (EF2) | Vanduser | $1,000,000 | An EF-2 tornado began east of Bell City in Stoddard County and quickly moved into Scott County. The worst damage was shortly after it entered the county along Highway 91, where it destroyed a barn, flipped a center pivot, and snapped several wooden power pole. The tornado continued northeast through mostly open fields, damaging grain silos and outbuildings, and dissipated just west of Oran. The estimated peak wind was 115 mph. The total path length was 6.4 miles. |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF3) | Vanduser | $1,000,000 | Two stick built homes were destroyed. One of these homes had complete roof loss, as well as most exterior walls and some interior walls blown out. A vehicle was blown out of the garage. The other home had a large portion of the roof blown off and some exterior walls blown out. Three empty railroad cars were overturned. A 60 by 80 foot building was blown away. Three mobile homes were completely destroyed. Numerous other mobile homes sustained moderate to major damage. Several irrigation systems were blown around. Many dozens of large or very large trees were snapped. Nine power poles were snapped. The tornado was videotaped as it crossed parts of the county. Peak winds were estimated near 140 mph. This tornado was spawned by the supercell thunderstorm that would later spawn a 42-mile long EF-3 tornado in western Kentucky and the southern tip of Illinois. |
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Vanduser | $100,000 | The tornado continued into Scott County from Stoddard County along Route 91 near the Whitewater River bridge. Empty grain bins and silos were destroyed. Irrigation pivots were turned over. Chicken houses were destroyed. There was siding and shingle damage to homes. Barns were damaged. Widespread tree and power line damage occurred along Highway 408 near the intersection of Highway 403. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $30,000 | Numerous trees were reported down throughout the county. The damage was reported mainly in northern, central, and western sections of the county. Some of the worst damage occurred in Kelso, where shingles were blown off roofs. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $25,000 | A roof was blown off of a house in Vanduser. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $25,000 | A house trailer was overturned, and trees were blown down in town. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $12,000 | Several large trees were uprooted. One tree fell on a house. A small equipment shed was destroyed. Large tree limbs were down. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $10,000 | Trees were down on every street in the town. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $8,000 | There were several reports of trees down across the Vanduser, Morley, Blodgett, and Haywood City areas. This included County Highways 439, 408, 407, and 402. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $3,000 | A couple of trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds in Vanduser. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $3,000 | Several large tree limbs were blown down. Minor damage to roofs was reported on the western side of town. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | $3,000 | Large tree limbs and power lines were down. A trained spotter estimated wind gusts near 70 MPH. |
| April 2010 | Heavy Rain | Vanduser | - | Water was over Highway 91 and CC Highway. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Vanduser | - | Hail one inch in diameter lasted for about 5 minutes. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Vanduser | - | A few golf-ball size hailstones, mixed with mostly pea-size hail, fell in Salcedo. Elsewhere, dime to quarter-size hail fell in Vanduser and on the north side of Sikeston. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | - | Two trees were down, including one that fell downtown. The other fell west of town. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Vanduser | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Vanduser | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanduser | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Vanduser | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crowder | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Brooks Junction | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| McMullin | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Haywood City | 4.7 miles | 20 | |
| Tanner | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Parker | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Morley | 5.4 miles | 20 | |
| Bleda | 6.1 miles | 19 |
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 Vanduser | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2885458 | 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 728142. 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.