Vinita Park, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Midland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63114. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 1,970 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVinita Park grew from 1,880 to 1,970 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 | 1,880 | |
| 2020 | 1,970 | +90 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1933 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Vinita Park between 2006 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined | 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 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Vinita Park: 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Perlite, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1 | Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| St Louis Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Evans and Howard Mine Number Five | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Highlands Mine Number Four | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Lamb Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Orth Bros Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vinita Park in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Vinita Park | - | A weak tornado touched down just west of Interstate 170 in the backyard of a residence on Stoneleigh Towers St. at 5:19 a.m. CDT, uprooting several large mature hardwood trees and topping a large pine tree. It crossed Interstate 170 and caused minor damage to trees and roofs in an apartment complex and adjacent office building along Old Towne Dr. The tornado then caused more significant tree damage east along Rowland Drive toward N. McKnight Road. A few houses were hit by trees causing significant damage. The tornado grew to its largest width, about 100 yards, while crossing N. McKnight Road. It is here that the most concentrated damage occurred with many houses loosing siding, roofing and having windows blown out by debris. Many large trees were uprooted and one tree adjacent to the Ruth Park Golf Club experienced significant twisting of the branches. The tornado continued east causing similar damage along Charters Ave. The tornado then weakened and dissipated at 5:21 a.m. after uprooting several large trees in the Ruth Park Golf Club. A total of 100 buildings were damaged by the tornado and damaging straight line thunderstorm winds, 20 had significant damage, and several cars were destroyed by falling trees or large limbs. Overall, the maximum intensity was EF1 with a total path length of 0.63 miles. The max path width was 100 yards. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Vinita Park | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Vinita Park | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinita Terrace | 0.8 miles | 20 | |
| Sycamore Hills | 0.8 miles | 20 | |
| Charlack | 0.9 miles | 20 | |
| Hanley Hills | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Overland | 1.3 miles | 20 | |
| Bel-Nor | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Greendale | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Saint Johns | 1.6 miles | 20 |
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 Vinita Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953975 | 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 756854. 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.








