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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.

Washburn within Barry County

Population over time

2 figures

Washburn 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.

YearPeople Change
2010435
2020407-28 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 13 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

29 since 1992

Regional 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177663-00514-05142018-1602
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177523-00514-04092018-1600
9 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Washburn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2024Thunderstorm WindWashburn$35,000Multiple power lines were reported down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWashburn$25,000Microburst winds destroyed a barn.
April 2017Tornado (EF1)Washburn$15,000An EF-1 tornado briefly touched down south of Washburn in rural Barry County. A chicken farm was destroyed and numerous trees were snapped.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWashburn$5,000Several chicken barns and a house was damaged. Several power lines were blown down near Routes 2265 and 1055.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWashburn$5,000Several large trees and power lines were blown down in Washburn.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWashburn$2,000A large tree limb was blown down onto a vehicle.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWashburn$1,000Large tree branches broke off.
May 2024Heavy RainWashburn-Rainfall of 3.72 inches was measured in a 24 hour period.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWashburn-Several large branches were reported down across the area.
April 2022HailWashburn-Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing.
July 2021Flash FloodWashburn-A portion of Highway 37 was flooding and impassable due to heavy rainfall.
May 2020HailWashburn-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
May 2020HailWashburn-Half dollar sized hail was reported.
May 2019HailWashburn-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2019Heavy RainWashburn-A co-op observer reported a 24-hr rainfall accumulation of 4.90 inches.
April 2017FloodWashburn-Farm Road 1070 north of Rauc-a-bye Lane was flooded and impassable at several locations.
April 2017HailWashburn-Quarter to golf ball sized hail was reported.
July 2015Flash FloodWashburn-Highway 90 in Washburn was flooded.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWashburn-There were several trees blown down between Washburn and Seligman along Highway 37.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWashburn-Several large trees limbs and branches were blown down.
September 2011HailWashburn-A local church reported quarter sized hail.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWashburn-A tree was reported down off Highway 90 southwest of Washburn.
September 2011Tornado (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 2008Thunderstorm WindWashburn-Several large limbs were ripped off of trees from thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindWashburn-Areas near and just north of Washburn sustained significant wind damage to large trees in a heavily forested area.
May 2017HailWashburn-no account filed
May 2017HailWashburn-no account filed
May 2012HailWashburn-no account filed
May 2012HailWashburn-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWashburn-no account filed
July 1997HailWashburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Wayne3.5 miles12
Seligman4.7 miles13
Pasley5.0 miles12
Exeter6.0 miles12
Mayflower7.0 miles14
Hilltop7.5 miles13
Thompsons Corner7.5 miles13
Cassville8.1 miles13

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 WashburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961532The 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.