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Hopkins, Missouri



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Pressure: 29.87 "

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  • City Description

    Hopkins is a city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 579 at the 2000 census. Hopkins is located at 40°33′1″N 94°49′3″W / 40.55028, -94.8175 (40.550198, -94.817620). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.9 km²), all of it land. Hopkins was founded in 1872 and named for A.L. Hopkins of the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. The railroad later became the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and finally the Burlington Northern before tracks were taken up in 1983. Occult writer Grant Wallace was born in Hopkins in 1867. The Hopkins Tornado of 1881 in which four tornadoes combined into one is believed to have been one of the first recorded F5 tornadoes. On Sunday afternoon November 16, 1952, Hopkins was struck by a tornado which greatly damaged the downtown business district. Scheduled to speak at a local meeting of the P.E.O.; a national college educational women's organization, that night was Mary Jane Truman, sister of Harry S Truman. She contacted her brother who was on a yacht. Hopkins was the first town in the United States of under 1,000 people to receive federal disaster relief.

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    City Contained By:

    • Nodaway County
    • Missouri

    Timezones:

    • Central Time zone

    Size:

    • 1.81299167724 km squared

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