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Wentworth, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64873. The Survey maps it on the Pierce City quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Wentworth within Newton County

Population over time

2 figures

Wentworth fell from 147 to 98 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
2010147
202098-49 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wentworth in 1997, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 March 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Wentworth: 65 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 - PbLeadPast Producer
Unknown - SsSilicaPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Frey-Cummings-Suprise Mining Co.ZincPast Producer1902
Navy Bean-Reynolds MineZincPast Producer1924
Pierce City Lime Co. North QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Smerdon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Soukop MineZincPast Producer1924, 1943
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wentworth in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
March 2017HailWentworth$100,000Baseball size hail was reported from social media with pictures. There were multiple reports of damage to cars and homes in the area.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWentworth$60,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey determined that a grain silo was toppled over by estimated 70mph straight line winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWentworth$10,000Damaging winds blew out several windows from houses and blew off a detached porch.
September 2014Tornado (EF0)Wentworth$10,000A NWS storm survey revealed that a small EF-0 tornado touched down near Vixen Road and tracked northeast to near Highway 37. A barn along with some trees were damaged. The estimated maximum winds were up to 70 mph.
April 2025HailWentworth-Up to quarter sized hail was reported.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWentworth-Several large limbs were reported down.
March 2017Funnel CloudWentworth-Storm spotters observed a funnel cloud.
September 2005Flash FloodWentworth-Flash flooding inundated sections of Highways J and JJ.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWentworth-Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball-size hail and 60 mph winds.
March 2015HailWentworth-no account filed
August 2012HailWentworth-no account filed
September 2005HailWentworth-no account filed
May 2004HailWentworth-no account filed
June 2004HailWentworth-no account filed
July 2003HailWentworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Talmage City1.6 miles18
Berwick4.3 miles11
Center Point5.2 miles11
Park6.6 miles11
Jolly6.7 miles11
Ritchey6.8 miles11
Pepsin9.1 miles18
Newtonia10.0 miles11

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 WentworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q539714The 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 728509. 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.