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Whitewater, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Hubble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63785. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitewater quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Whitewater within Cape Girardeau County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitewater fell from 125 to 88 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
2010125
202088-37 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Whitewater between 1996 and 2019, burning about 23 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
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 July 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1996Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2019Debris and open burning2.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179047-01617-04112019-1411
7 November 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whitewater: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Thomas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitewater in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
February 2019Thunderstorm WindWhitewater$80,000A National Weather Service damage survey found sporadic straight-line wind damage across the southern part of the county. Peak estimated winds were 80 mph. The path length was 15 miles and the maximum width was 1.5 miles. One open storage barn was destroyed, and other nearby barns sustained roof damage. A former school building received minor roof damage. A few homes sustained shingle and roof damage. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitewater$25,000Thunderstorms produced damaging winds across southwest Cape Girardeau County. Just southeast of Gordonville, a barn and a storage building were both unroofed. Windows were blown out of a building, and trees were blown down.
April 1999FloodWhitewater-Thunderstorms with heavy rain occurred numerous times over a 12-hour period, producing rainfall totals up to 3 inches in northern and western Cape Girardeau County. At one point, officials reported a foot of water over County Road 379 at Whitewater.
April 2006HailWhitewater-no account filed
March 2002Flash FloodWhitewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Stroderville (historical)1.1 miles18
Allenville2.3 miles18
Crump3.3 miles18
Delta4.2 miles20
Hickory Ridge4.5 miles18
Cliff4.8 miles18
Houck5.0 miles19
Arbor5.4 miles18

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 WhitewaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954427The 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 728793. 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.