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Wasola, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Noble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65773. The Survey maps it on the Wasola quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.

Wasola within Ozark County

Population over time

2 figures

Wasola grew from 113 to 115 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
2010113
2020115+2 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 14 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Wasola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,839 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
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
7 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1999Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined304 acresMissouri Department of ConservationINDIAN FIRE
7 April 2000Arson/incendiarism64 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
4 April 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wasola: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Able LandIronProspect
Albert Robison BankIronPast Producer
Charles Rippee Iron MineIronOccurrenceSurface
Mapes LandIronPast Producer
Newton Mining Co LandIronProspect

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wasola in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002Tornado (F1)Wasola$50,000no account filed
October 2010Thunderstorm WindWasola$5,000A tree was reported to have fallen on a house in Wasola.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindWasola$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged a roof of a church south of Wasola along Highway 5.
July 1994HailWasola$5,000A cooperative weather observer reported hail damage to her car.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindWasola$500Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over a power pole and blew tin off of a barn near Wasola.
March 2025HailWasola-Hail to the size of half dollars fell on County Road 851 southwest of Wasola.
May 2019Heavy RainWasola-A co-op observer reported a 24-hr rainfall accumulation of 4.77 inches.
April 2017Heavy RainWasola-Rainfall of 5.50 inches was measured since midnight.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWasola-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees near Wasola.
March 2015HailWasola-no account filed
April 2011HailWasola-no account filed
April 2011HailWasola-no account filed
June 2009HailWasola-no account filed
June 2009HailWasola-no account filed
March 2006HailWasola-no account filed
March 2006HailWasola-no account filed
March 2006HailWasola-no account filed
April 2006HailWasola-no account filed
February 2005HailWasola-no account filed
November 2005HailWasola-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWasola-no account filed
April 2003Flash FloodWasola-no account filed
July 2003HailWasola-no account filed
July 2003HailWasola-no account filed
April 2002HailWasola-no account filed
February 1999HailWasola-no account filed
April 1998HailWasola-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindWasola-no account filed
May 1997HailWasola-no account filed
September 1996HailWasola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Noble3.2 miles13
Almartha3.7 miles14
Foil4.1 miles14
Summit City4.3 miles13
Grabeel (historical)5.1 miles13
Toledo6.0 miles14
Souder6.2 miles13
Romance6.6 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 WasolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459269The 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 752773. 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.