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Alexandria, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63430. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

Alexandria within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Alexandria fell from 159 to 105 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
2010159
2020105-54 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Alexandria between 1996 and 2014, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 June 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeGREG LANDI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alexandria: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Mc Manus and Tucker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexandria in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
June 2011FloodAlexandria$500,000Heavy rains during the second week of June caused the Fox River to flood Alexandria, MO during the third week of June. Much of the town was under flood waters.
July 2010FloodAlexandria$75,000no account filed
June 2010HailAlexandria$10,000Ping-pong ball sized hail fell in eastern Clark County, damaging crops, roofs, and siding on homes and other buildings.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Time estimated by radar.
May 2019FloodAlexandria-The Mississippi River at Gregory Landing rose above its major flood stage of 25 feet around 10 AM on May 29th and remained above major flood stage until the end of the month. This flooding continued into June.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area.
June 2013FloodAlexandria-Heavy rain across the region late in the month of May led to the Mississippi River being above the major flood stage of 18 feet to begin the month. The river fell below major flood stage by mid morning on the 1st and then rose back above it shortly after midnight on the 4th. The river remained above major flood stage until late in the day on the 9th.
May 2013FloodAlexandria-Heavy rains during the last week of May resulted in the Mississippi River at Keokuk, IA going above the major flood stage level of 19 feet during the evening of May 29th. It briefly fell about 1/4 of an inch below the major flood stage level during the early evening hours of May 30. It then rose above 19 feet and remained above it through the end of the month.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Wind gusts were estimated to be 65 mph in Alexandria, MO at 600 pm April 4.
April 1995HailAlexandria-Dime-size hail was reported by the county sheriff.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Wind gusts as high as 60 mph were reported by the county sheriff.
June 2017HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2013FloodAlexandria-no account filed
June 2008FloodAlexandria-no account filed
May 2004HailAlexandria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Gregory Landing5.8 miles17
Wayland7.2 miles17
Winchester8.7 miles17
Saint Francisville9.1 miles17
Saint Patrick11.2 miles16
Clark City12.7 miles17
Antioch12.8 miles16
Waterloo12.9 miles17

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 AlexandriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961844The 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 735484. 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.