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Weldon Spring, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Weldon Spring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63304. The Survey maps it on the Weldon Spring quadrangle. 5,326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Weldon Spring within St. Charles County

Population over time

2 figures

Weldon Spring fell from 5,443 to 5,326 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
20105,443
20205,326-117 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

46 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Weldon Spring between 2006 and 2017, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2

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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 July 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Charles 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 Weldon Spring: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Hamburg SquarryStone, DimensionUnknown
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Weldon Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Charles County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weldon Spring in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWeldon Spring-Wind gusts to 60 mph were observed at the National Weather Service Forecast Office along with marble-size hail. Large trees were blown down along parts of Highway 94 south of Weldon Spring. Off-duty National Weather Service personnel also reported 0.75-inch-diameter hail in the Harvester area.

Every storm recorded in St. Charles 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
Weldon Spring Heights0.6 miles25
Weldon2.0 miles25
Toonerville2.8 miles25
Cottleville2.9 miles25
All Saints Village3.6 miles29
Hamburg3.8 miles25
Howell (historical)4.3 miles24
Dardenne Prairie4.4 miles29

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 Weldon SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959598The 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 756882. 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.