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Wheeling, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wheeling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64688. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Wheeling within Livingston County

Population over time

2 figures

Wheeling fell from 271 to 220 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
2010271
2020220-51 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

In the county-history sources

1,602 words on this township

Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Wheeling Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wheeling township was organized May 6, 1867, on petition of Augustine Wiley, John Wiley, and others, out of the territory belonging to Chillicothe township. At first it com- prised all of Congressional townships 57 and 58, in range 22, a portion of the township lying south of Grand river, but in March, 1871, the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad became the southern boundary as at present. The first justice of the peace was Augustine Wiley. The township was named for the town of Wheeling. At the first township election the total number of voters was 72.

Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.

Wheeling township comprises the west half of township 58, range 22, and that part of the west half of township 57 in the same range lying north of the center of the track of the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad; it contains about 29 sections of land, and is one of the smallest townships in the county. Its general surface is prairie and bottom land. The famous Wheeling prairie is a fine body of land, renowned for its fertility and general excellence. Medicine creek flows along the western border of the township and a considerable portion is taken up with its bottom lands, not all of which have been reduced to cultivation.

Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.

Like the other townships of the county the principal productions of Wheeling are grain and stock, to the raising of which it is well adapted. The principal varieties of timber are oak, hickory and elm, and there is a sufficiency for general purposes.

Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wheeling Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wheeling between 1992 and 2017, burning about 319 acres 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121344-05836-03212015-1716
18 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 March 2011Debris and open burning60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120215-05836-03152015-1804
29 February 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wheeling: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheeling in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2024Thunderstorm WindWheeling-Downed trees in Wheeling.
June 2013Flash FloodWheeling-Two feet of water was reported covering Highway 36 west bound lanes, east of Chillicothe.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWheeling-Large tree limbs down.
March 2002HailWheeling-Also reported 60 mph wind gust.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWheeling-Spotters reported downed trees and power lines.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWheeling-Trees downed.
June 2005HailWheeling-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Cream Ridge4.1 miles14
Norville5.1 miles14
Leopolis (historical)6.2 miles14
Bedford6.3 miles15
Corner Campbell School7.6 miles15
Harmony (historical)8.3 miles14
Cleary8.3 miles13
Cavendish8.7 miles15

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 WheelingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959991The 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 728695. 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.