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Arcola, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65603. The Survey maps it on the Cedarville quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Arcola within Dade County

Population over time

2 figures

Arcola fell from 55 to 37 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
201055
202037-18 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Arcola between 1992 and 2019, burning about 716 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
7 August 1997Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1997Natural3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178159-921-07202018-1452
13 April 1994Equipment and vehicle use375 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 1992Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade 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 Arcola: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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
Cox,Pierce,+ Thomas DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcola in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindArcola$5,000no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindArcola$5,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindArcola$2,000A pole barn was moved and several trees were blown down. There was minor damage to a house.
April 2026Flash FloodArcola-State Highway 97 was closed due to flooding from tributaries of Keller Creek.
April 2026FloodArcola-State Highway 97 was closed at Keller Branch due to flooding.
March 2020Flash FloodArcola-State Highway 97 was closed at the Kelly Branch due to flooding.
September 2005HailArcola-no account filed
April 2004HailArcola-no account filed
May 2004HailArcola-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindArcola-no account filed
May 2003HailArcola-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindArcola-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindArcola-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindArcola-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindArcola-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindArcola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Neola3.0 miles15
Glen Town4.4 miles15
Crisp4.8 miles15
Seybert5.8 miles15
Cedarville6.0 miles13
Sims Point6.6 miles15
Sylvania8.3 miles17
Grays Valley8.7 miles15

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 ArcolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3293294The 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 729837. 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.