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.
Population over time
2 figuresWhitewater 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 125 | |
| 2020 | 88 | -37 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1934 USGS Advance quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Advance quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
5 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.8 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179047-01617-04112019-1411 |
| 7 November 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitewater | $80,000 | A 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitewater | $25,000 | Thunderstorms 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 1999 | Flood | Whitewater | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Whitewater | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Flash Flood | Whitewater | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stroderville (historical) | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Allenville | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Crump | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Delta | 4.2 miles | 20 | |
| Hickory Ridge | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Cliff | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Houck | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Arbor | 5.4 miles | 18 |
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 Whitewater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954427 | 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 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.










