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Vista, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Doyal Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64776. The Survey maps it on the Vista quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Vista within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Vista fell from 54 to 36 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
201054
202036-18 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Vista between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,006 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177539-09339-05132018-1041
13 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177536-09339-04092018-1641
6 April 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 2002Arson/incendiarism27 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Vista: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Crystal MineBarium-BaritePast ProducerHydrothermal Vein
Crystal MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Krifer Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krifer Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baumgardner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Geo. Baker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Halliwell Cement Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vista in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindVista$40,000Several trees and large limbs were reported down on power lines.
May 2024HailVista$30,000Report of tennis ball size hail near Vista.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindVista$20,000A tree was reported down on a home causing minor damage and a few small outbuildings were damaged.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindVista$5,000no account filed
July 2021Flash FloodVista-SE 601 Road was flooded and impassable at Coon Creek.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindVista-The Emergency Manager reported that hundreds of trees were down across the eastern portion of the county due to straight line winds.
September 2010Flash FloodVista-Several low water crossings across the county were reported as flooded and impassable.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindVista-Several large limbs were knocked out of trees due to severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 1998HailVista-Thunderstorms winds also downed a large tree.
April 2013HailVista-no account filed
March 2012HailVista-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindVista-no account filed
May 1997Flash FloodVista-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Tracy0.7 miles17
Topper2.7 miles17
Raney4.3 miles17
Osceola4.6 miles20
Gerster5.3 miles17
Corbin (historical)6.4 miles20
Terry7.0 miles17
Collins7.1 miles17

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 VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3321768The 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 756858. 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.