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Wellston, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in University Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63133. It stands on Engelholm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 1,537 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Wellston within St. Louis County

On record in Wellston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Wellston fell from 2,313 to 1,537 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
20102,313
20201,537-776 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wellston between 2006 and 2014, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined2

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
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Wellston: 59 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Perlite. 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
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1Clay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Delore Barite MillBarium-BariteProducer
Krummel and Buchner MineCoal, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
St Louis Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Evans and Howard Mine Number FiveClayPast Producer
Grandview Mine Number SeventeenClayProducer
Guelker Mine Number FourClayPast Producer
Highlands Mine Number FourClayPast Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 4ClayPast Producer
Mine Number 7ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellston in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWellston1 hurtThunderstorm winds blew down several large trees as well as numerous tree limbs and power lines in University City, Clayton and Richmond Heights areas. One of the trees fell onto a home on Sheridan Drive causing major damage to the structure. Two people inside the home did not sustain any injuries. Another large tree fell onto a home on Amherst Avenue landing on the main bedroom, which was occupied. The home owner only sustained a few scrapes and bruises.
April 2026HailWellston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Pagedale0.9 miles20
Hillsdale1.1 miles20
Velda Village1.2 miles20
University City1.3 miles20
Velda Village Hills1.4 miles20
Hanley Hills1.6 miles20
Uplands Park1.7 miles20
Greendale1.7 miles20

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 WellstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965114The 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 756887. 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.