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Amsterdam, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in West Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64723. It lies near Summers Mound. The Survey maps it on the Amoret quadrangle. 218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Amsterdam within Bates County

Population over time

2 figures

Amsterdam fell from 242 to 218 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
2010242
2020218-24 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Amsterdam between 1992 and 2018, burning about 22 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
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
27 January 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service36
27 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service39
18 January 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bates County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Amsterdam: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Alvis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bates Co #6 Amsterdam QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bates County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amsterdam in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
March 2006Tornado (F0)Amsterdam$400,000Tornado crossed into Bates county from Linn county Kansas at 1424 CST...2 miles west-southwest of Amsterdam. The F0 tornado caused damage to several buildings in Amsterdam. The tornado then continued northeast over rural areas with damage limited to trees. The tornado then lifted 1 mile northwest of Adrian at 1442 CST.
February 2007Tornado (EF1)Amsterdam$50,000The supercell thunderstorm which earlier had produced an EF4 tornado in Linn county Kansas, moved east-northeast into Bates county and spawned another tornado, EF1 in intensity, 3 miles east southeast of Amsterdam at 8:27 PM CST and then traveled over rural areas to the northeast, before lifting 3 miles west of Adrian at 8:37 PM CST. Major damage to one residence was noted, along with minor damage to other outbuildings. Trees and power poles were downed as well.
February 2007HailAmsterdam$12,000Several residences and vehicles received damage from the large hail.
June 1994HailAmsterdam$5,000A sheriff's patrol car was damaged by golf ball-size hail.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAmsterdam-Law Enforcement reported a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindAmsterdam-Some minor tree damage was reported in Amsterdam as a result of strong winds approaching 60 mph.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindAmsterdam-Thunderstorm winds gusted to an estimated 60 mph.
May 2007Flash FloodAmsterdam-Several streets were reported flooded.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindAmsterdam-The Bates County sheriff office reported tree limbs down up to 6 inches in diameter in Amsterdown and 5 miles east of Worland. Wind speeds were estimated at 70 MPH by severe weather spotters.
May 2017HailAmsterdam-no account filed
April 2010HailAmsterdam-no account filed
June 2008HailAmsterdam-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAmsterdam-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAmsterdam-no account filed
June 2008HailAmsterdam-no account filed
March 2005HailAmsterdam-no account filed
March 2005HailAmsterdam-no account filed
June 1999HailAmsterdam-no account filed
May 1996HailAmsterdam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bates 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
Merwin3.8 miles15
Mulberry4.3 miles15
Amoret6.5 miles15
Lacyville6.5 miles15
Virginia7.6 miles14
Burdett8.1 miles15
South Drexel8.8 miles15
Worland11.2 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 AmsterdamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959016The 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 729836. 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.