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Arcadia, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Arcadia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63621. It lies near College Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle. 618 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Arcadia within Iron County

On record in Arcadia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Arcadia grew from 608 to 618 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
2010608
2020618+10 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 25 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Arcadia between 1992 and 2017, burning about 508 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremony10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 May 1997Smoking223 acresMark Twain National ForestLAKE KILLARNEY
7 April 2013Debris and open burning8.3 acresMark Twain National Forest334
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism102 acresMark Twain National ForestTURKEY FOOT
4 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 April 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Arcadia: 28 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, Dimension, Iron, Manganese, Manganese. 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
Cuthbertson Mtn MineManganese, IronPast Producer
Shepherd MountainIron, Sulfur, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1815
Jones QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - GraniteGranitePast Producer
Unknown - GraniteGranitePast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Russel PropertyManganesePast Producer
Unknown - ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Unknown - ManganeseManganeseProspect
Buford Mtn MineIron, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcadia in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2000LightningArcadia4 hurtFour Boy Scouts were injured by a lightning strike while camping on Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest peak in Missouri. The lightning hit a pine tree about 130 feet away. The electricity apparently went through the roots into the boys tent, blowing 4 holes into the bottom of the tent. One boy was knock unconscious. He was not breathing and would likely have died were it not for CPR applied by one of the Scout Leaders. The other boys suffered burns from first to third degree on their backs and arms.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Arcadia-A tornado touched down in the southwestern portion of Arcadia, near the intersection of W. Maple Street and S. Main Street. As it tracked to the east it uprooted or snapped off several large trees as it crossed Highway 21 and tracked along Highway 72. It eventually moved northeast, skirting the south shore of Lake Killarney snapping off more trees before lifting and dissipating near Ozark Drive. Overall, the tornado was rated EF1 with a path length of 4.08 miles and a max path width of 100 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large trees and power lines along Highway 21 and Route E.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees between Johnson Shut-Ins State Park and Ironton.
April 1994HailArcadia-Hail reached dime-size just south of Arcadia.
March 2006HailArcadia-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindArcadia-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindArcadia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Russellville0.6 miles25
Ironton0.6 miles25
Wilsonville1.0 miles25
Pilot Knob2.4 miles25
English Town2.5 miles25
Killarney Shores3.4 miles25
Snow Hollow Lake4.1 miles24
Ghermanville4.7 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 Q966722The 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 748606. 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.