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Willow Springs, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Willow Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65793. The Survey maps it on the Willow Springs South quadrangle. 2,164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.

Willow Springs within Howell County

Population over time

2 figures

Willow Springs fell from 2,184 to 2,164 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
20102,184
20202,164-20 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Willow Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 804 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
9 August 2010Natural22 acresMark Twain National ForestSHEEKS EAST
17 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMark Twain National ForestNOBLETT CREEK
24 June 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 2014Arson/incendiarism16 acresMark Twain National ForestCROOKED
1 May 1997Arson/incendiarism51 acresMark Twain National ForestTICK HOLLER
5 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2005Debris and open burning40 acresMark Twain National ForestHWY 137

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Willow Springs: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, 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
Claude Moody PropertyZinc, IronOccurrence1930
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brushy Creek Iron MineIronPast Producer1890
Doc Davis MineIronPast Producer
Leora LandIronOccurrenceGoethite, Limonite
Lyle A. Spence PropertyIronProspect1939
Murphy Mine, No.3IronPast Producer1908
Unknown - IronIronProspect

Every working recorded in Howell County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow Springs in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 1997: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 1997Flash FloodWillow Springs1 killed, 1 hurtno account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWillow Springs$7,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWillow Springs$5,000no account filed
September 1996HailWillow Springs-no account filed
March 1996HailWillow Springs-no account filed
March 1996HailWillow Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howell 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
Sterling4.1 miles18
Burnham4.6 miles14
Hutton Valley5.1 miles14
Trask9.0 miles12
Pomona9.1 miles14
Horton10.1 miles13
Olden11.4 miles14
Turnerville12.7 miles19

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 Willow SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957431The 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 752922. 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.