Arcadia, Kansas
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66711. The Survey maps it on the Garland quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArcadia fell from 310 to 254 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 | 310 | |
| 2020 | 254 | -56 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 26 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Garland quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Garland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Garland quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Arcadia between 1994 and 2018, burning about 790 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 014-006 |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-055 |
| 18 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 015-028 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 015-026 |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 016-050 |
| 4 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 016-044 |
| 30 March 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 015-042 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arcadia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcadia in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $50,000 | High winds downed power lines and poles and caused minor shingle and roof damage to a few homes. Winds were estimated at 70 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $50,000 | A large, at least 1 foot in diameter tree was downed and multiple power poles were snapped causing power outages. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $40,000 | Several large trees and power poles were snapped due to high winds. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $25,000 | Several trees and powerlines were downed by high winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $5,000 | A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that several trees and power lines were destroyed from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Arcadia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Arcadia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | Multiple large limbs of various sizes up to 6 inches in diameter were reported down across town. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | The Arcadia Fire Department reported multiple 2-3 inch diameter tree limbs downed in town. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Arcadia | - | Two to four inches of rain fell over Crawford County. Nearly all low lying areas that typically flood during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. Lightning Creek and Cowskin Creek were impacted the greatest. A water rescue was performed along Cowskin Creek south of Pittsburg. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | The initial stages of a derecho that tracked over areas of southeast Kansas and into west central and central Missouri, affected extreme northern Crawford County. A few trees were downed near the community of Arcadia. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Arcadia | - | 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.
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 Arcadia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q670960 | 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 475013. 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.















