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Williamsville, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Williams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63967. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williamsville quadrangle. 279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Williamsville within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Williamsville fell from 342 to 279 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
2010342
2020279-63 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Williamsville between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,094 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 were 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/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestWAKEUP
14 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPOWERLINE
7 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMark Twain National ForestHOT FOOT
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarism13 acresMark Twain National ForestHORSCH RIDGE
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestWILEY KING
13 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.7 acresMark Twain National ForestPOWERLINE 49
5 June 2007Arson/incendiarism9.5 acresMark Twain National ForestTRAM EAST 1
5 June 2007Arson/incendiarism12 acresMark Twain National ForestTRAM EAST 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 95 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 95 workings within 5 miles of Williamsville: 64 past producers, 24 prospects, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Unknown - Usfs LandFlagstonePast Producer
Farquher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Aldrich LandIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsville in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1997HailWilliamsville$50,000A severe thunderstorm tracked across southern Wayne County, producing nickel to golf-ball size hail near the Butler County line.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$10,000Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$7,000Many trees and power lines were down in the southeast corner of Wayne County, including Wappapello State Park and the Wappapello Dam area. Two houses received minor damage. Trees were down on U.S. Highway 67 and Missouri Highway 172 within a few miles of the Butler County line.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$5,000Tree tops were broken off large trees in Williamsville which was in the hook echo portion of a supercell storm.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$3,000Trees were down along Highway 49.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$3,000Trees were blown down across E Highway outside of Greenville and across A Highway outside of Williamsville.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$3,000Trees were down near Silva and along Highway 49 in Williamsville.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville$1,000The antenna was ripped off a home.
March 2025HailWilliamsville-Hail to the size of golf balls fell in and north of Williamsville.
May 2024Flash FloodWilliamsville-Water flowed over the road in Williamsville at CR-417 and MO-49.
July 2024Flash FloodWilliamsville-Water flowed over Hwy A 2 miles from Hwy V in Williamsville. Radar estimated 3 hour rainfall totals from 1500-1800CST were up to around 4 inches.
May 2023HailWilliamsville-Quarter-size hail was reported in a swath from around Williamsville to just south of Greenville.
May 2023Funnel CloudWilliamsville-A funnel cloud was reported in southern Wayne County, between Williamsville and U.S. Highway 67 south of Greenville.
March 2017HailWilliamsville-Dime-size hail fell from this storm, which was the same storm that produced a tornado northwest and north of Poplar Bluff.
August 2016FloodWilliamsville-Considerable flooding of low-lying areas was reported as a result of several rounds of thunderstorms over the past few days. Missouri State Route 49 was closed near Williamsville due to flooding. The co-operative observer at Williamsville measured 15.53 inches over the four-day period ending early on the morning of the 16th.
November 2015Heavy RainWilliamsville-The automated rain gage on the Black River near Williamsville measured 5.42 inches in the past 48 hours.
March 2006Flash FloodWilliamsville-A couple of state roads were closed by flooding, including Route C near Silva and Route FF near Greenville.
July 1998HailWilliamsville-Baseball size hail was reported by Wayne County Emergency Management.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindWilliamsville-Two trees were blown down.
May 1997Flash FloodWilliamsville-Thunderstorms continually redeveloped over Wayne County. The storms produced copious amounts of rainfall, which amounted to as much as 5 inches in 3 hours, according to radar estimates.
July 2023HailWilliamsville-no account filed
May 2021HailWilliamsville-no account filed
March 2018HailWilliamsville-no account filed
May 2018HailWilliamsville-no account filed
July 2003HailWilliamsville-no account filed
April 2002HailWilliamsville-no account filed
April 2002HailWilliamsville-no account filed
March 1996HailWilliamsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Bull Run Camp2.4 miles13
Browns Crossing2.4 miles13
Keener Cave3.2 miles13
Kerrigan (historical)3.9 miles17
Barlow (historical)4.5 miles17
Ladero4.5 miles13
Upalika5.3 miles13
Taskee Station (historical)5.5 miles13

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 WilliamsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965978The 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 752918. 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.