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Arbela, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Thomson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63432. The Survey maps it on the Arbela quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Arbela within Scotland County

Population over time

2 figures

Arbela fell from 41 to 24 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
201041
202024-17 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

14 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Arbela between 2011 and 2019, burning about 32 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation142816-09917-09272016-1755
23 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation128554-09917-09232015-1421
6 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177570-09917-04072018-0425
4 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177063-02309-03082018-1852
31 March 2018Debris and open burning6.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177571-09917-03312018-1250

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotland County

Storms near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arbela in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Arbela$100,000A trained spotter reported a tornado north of Arbela. A barn and a cattle shed were destroyed along with several other outbuildings in the area. The tornado was on the ground for 0.2 miles and was around 30 yards wide. It was rated EF0 with a peak wind speed of 80 MPH.
July 2010Flash FloodArbela$10,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of parts of southeast Scotland County during the late evening of July 19 and morning of July 20. The flood waters covered State Highway A south of Highway 136 between Arbela, MO and Gorin, MO. In addition, flood waters covered State Highway E about 1 mile east of Etna, MO.
March 2006Tornado (F0)Arbela$5,000Rated high F0
August 2006Thunderstorm WindArbela$500A spotter reported 3 inch diameter limbs down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindArbela-A tree was reported down on a power line.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindArbela-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 to 70 mph were observed in Arbela, MO at 315 pm CDT May 11.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArbela-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs about 3 miles west southwest of Granger, MO at 12:52 pm June 15.
June 2005HailArbela-0.75 to 0.88 inch hail
April 2015HailArbela-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotland 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
Granger2.2 miles15
Etna3.7 miles15
Prospect Grove4.8 miles13
Azen6.8 miles7
Gorin7.1 miles9
Memphis8.2 miles10
Brock9.4 miles7
Edinburg10.8 miles9

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 ArbelaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965298The 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 735488. 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.

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.