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.
Population over time
2 figuresWheeling 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 271 | |
| 2020 | 220 | -51 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1924 USGS Chula quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Chula quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,602 words on this townshipPast 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 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 121344-05836-03212015-1716 |
| 18 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120215-05836-03152015-1804 |
| 29 February 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheeling | - | Downed trees in Wheeling. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Wheeling | - | Two feet of water was reported covering Highway 36 west bound lanes, east of Chillicothe. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheeling | - | Large tree limbs down. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Wheeling | - | Also reported 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheeling | - | Spotters reported downed trees and power lines. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheeling | - | Trees downed. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wheeling | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cream Ridge | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Norville | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Leopolis (historical) | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bedford | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Corner Campbell School | 7.6 miles | 15 | |
| Harmony (historical) | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cleary | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Cavendish | 8.7 miles | 15 |
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 Wheeling | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959991 | 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 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.







