Washburn, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Washburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65772. It lies near Blockade Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Seligman quadrangle. 407 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWashburn fell from 435 to 407 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 | 435 | |
| 2020 | 407 | -28 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 13 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.
- 1937 USGS Cassville quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS Cassville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Cassville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Seligman quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Table Rock Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Seligman quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Washburn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177663-00514-05142018-1602 |
| 9 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.8 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177523-00514-04092018-1600 |
| 9 April 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Washburn: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - S+G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Washburn Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Washburn in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | $35,000 | Multiple power lines were reported down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | $25,000 | Microburst winds destroyed a barn. |
| April 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Washburn | $15,000 | An EF-1 tornado briefly touched down south of Washburn in rural Barry County. A chicken farm was destroyed and numerous trees were snapped. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | $5,000 | Several chicken barns and a house was damaged. Several power lines were blown down near Routes 2265 and 1055. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | $5,000 | Several large trees and power lines were blown down in Washburn. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | $2,000 | A large tree limb was blown down onto a vehicle. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | $1,000 | Large tree branches broke off. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Washburn | - | Rainfall of 3.72 inches was measured in a 24 hour period. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | Several large branches were reported down across the area. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Washburn | - | Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Washburn | - | A portion of Highway 37 was flooding and impassable due to heavy rainfall. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Washburn | - | Ping pong ball sized hail was reported. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Washburn | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Washburn | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Washburn | - | A co-op observer reported a 24-hr rainfall accumulation of 4.90 inches. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Washburn | - | Farm Road 1070 north of Rauc-a-bye Lane was flooded and impassable at several locations. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Washburn | - | Quarter to golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Washburn | - | Highway 90 in Washburn was flooded. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | There were several trees blown down between Washburn and Seligman along Highway 37. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | Several large trees limbs and branches were blown down. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Washburn | - | A local church reported quarter sized hail. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | A tree was reported down off Highway 90 southwest of Washburn. |
| September 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Washburn | - | A trained weather spotter and volunteer fire department saw a brief touchdown of a tornado across Highway 90 near the intersection of Highway NN. No damage was reported with this brief touchdown as it was over an open field. Local fire department and law enforcement witnessed this brief tornado in open areas along with funnel clouds reported with this same storm. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | Several large limbs were ripped off of trees from thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | Areas near and just north of Washburn sustained significant wind damage to large trees in a heavily forested area. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Washburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Washburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Washburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Washburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washburn | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Washburn | - | 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.
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 Washburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961532 | 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 752769. 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.











