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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.

Arcadia within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Arcadia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010310
2020254-56 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 26 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

25 since 1994

Regional 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 May 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service014-006
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-055
18 May 1994Debris and open burning160 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service015-028
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service015-026
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service016-050
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service016-044
30 March 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKansas Forest Service015-042

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindArcadia$50,000High winds downed power lines and poles and caused minor shingle and roof damage to a few homes. Winds were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindArcadia$50,000A large, at least 1 foot in diameter tree was downed and multiple power poles were snapped causing power outages.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindArcadia$40,000Several large trees and power poles were snapped due to high winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindArcadia$25,000Several trees and powerlines were downed by high winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArcadia$5,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that several trees and power lines were destroyed from severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 1998HailArcadia$5,000no account filed
April 1996HailArcadia$1,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Multiple large limbs of various sizes up to 6 inches in diameter were reported down across town.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindArcadia-The Arcadia Fire Department reported multiple 2-3 inch diameter tree limbs downed in town.
April 2008Flash FloodArcadia-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 2006Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindArcadia-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 2017HailArcadia-no account filed
March 2005HailArcadia-no account filed
September 2003HailArcadia-no account filed
July 2000HailArcadia-no account filed
July 1997HailArcadia-no account filed
May 1997HailArcadia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Coalvale2.3 miles24
Gross3.1 miles24
Red Onion4.0 miles24
Mertz4.2 miles24
Dry Wood4.9 miles24
Barber5.3 miles24
Mulberry5.9 miles26
Croweburg6.3 miles24

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 ArcadiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q670960The 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.