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.
Population over time
2 figuresWentworth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 147 | |
| 2020 | 98 | -49 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Ritchey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Pierce City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Neosho quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1997Regional 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/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 66 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Pb | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ss | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Frey-Cummings-Suprise Mining Co. | Zinc | Past Producer | 1902 | |
| Navy Bean-Reynolds Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1924 | |
| Pierce City Lime Co. North Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Smerdon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Soukop Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1924, 1943 | |
| Unknown - Ss | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Hail | Wentworth | $100,000 | Baseball size hail was reported from social media with pictures. There were multiple reports of damage to cars and homes in the area. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wentworth | $60,000 | A National Weather Service Storm Survey determined that a grain silo was toppled over by estimated 70mph straight line winds. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wentworth | $10,000 | Damaging winds blew out several windows from houses and blew off a detached porch. |
| September 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Wentworth | $10,000 | A 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 2025 | Hail | Wentworth | - | Up to quarter sized hail was reported. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wentworth | - | Several large limbs were reported down. |
| March 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Wentworth | - | Storm spotters observed a funnel cloud. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Wentworth | - | Flash flooding inundated sections of Highways J and JJ. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wentworth | - | Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball-size hail and 60 mph winds. |
| March 2015 | Hail | Wentworth | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Wentworth | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Wentworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Wentworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Wentworth | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Wentworth | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talmage City | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Berwick | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Center Point | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Park | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Jolly | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Ritchey | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Pepsin | 9.1 miles | 18 | |
| Newtonia | 10.0 miles | 11 |
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 Wentworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q539714 | The 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.





