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.
Population over time
2 figuresArbela 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 24 | -17 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1903 USGS Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Arbela quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2011Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 142816-09917-09272016-1755 |
| 23 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 128554-09917-09232015-1421 |
| 6 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177570-09917-04072018-0425 |
| 4 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177063-02309-03082018-1852 |
| 31 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177571-09917-03312018-1250 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Arbela | $100,000 | A 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Arbela | $10,000 | Heavy 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 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Arbela | $5,000 | Rated high F0 |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arbela | $500 | A spotter reported 3 inch diameter limbs down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arbela | - | A tree was reported down on a power line. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arbela | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 to 70 mph were observed in Arbela, MO at 315 pm CDT May 11. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arbela | - | 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 2005 | Hail | Arbela | - | 0.75 to 0.88 inch hail |
| April 2015 | Hail | Arbela | - | 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 Arbela | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965298 | 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 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.





