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Arkoe, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Cloud Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64468. It stands on Dog Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maryville East quadrangle. 56 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Arkoe within Nodaway County

Population over time

2 figures

Arkoe fell from 68 to 56 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
201068
202056-12 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

456 words on this township

Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on White Cloud Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

But the life of Bridgewater was doomed to fate, because Dr. P. H. Tal¬ bott (later murdered) had granted the right-of-way to the railroad through his land, on conditions such as necessitated another town site nearby, and that place was called Arkoe.

Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.

Arkoe is about one mile to the north of old Bridgewater, which was abandoned on account of the new railroad station. Dr. P. H. Talbott and S. K. Snively laid off the town of Arkoe September 15, 1874, and Judge John Brady surveyed the plat. The Doctor found the name "Arkoe" in the book entitled "Twenty Thousand Fathoms Under the Sea." Nelson Wilson moved a building from old Bridgewater to Arkoe and in it opened a general store this being the first building in the place. The second building was erected in 1875 by W. G. Turner. The third building in the town was a dwelling erected in 1876 by C. A. Dewey. In 1877 Dr. W. M. Simms erected an office build¬ ing. In 1875 a lot was donated to James Buckridge by Mr. Snively, upon which he built a blacksmith shop. The first postmaster at the new town was Nelson Wilson.

Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on White Cloud Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Arkoe in 2018, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176790-07437-04112018-1544
10 March 2018Debris and open burning3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation166017-07437-03102018-1213

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nodaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Arkoe: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkoe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dagun QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elliot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nodaway County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkoe in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Arkoe-A weak tornado formed near Maryville, but caused little to no damage outside of some tree damage in rural Nodaway County.
July 2015Flash FloodArkoe-Route U was closed in both directions from Arkoe to Keystone Rd.
July 2015Flash FloodArkoe-Water over Highway 71 near Degase Feed, making the road impassable.
March 2006HailArkoe-no account filed
June 2005HailArkoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nodaway 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
Bedison3.7 miles11
Pumpkin Center4.5 miles12
Whitecloud5.0 miles12
Bell Grove5.5 miles11
Barnard5.8 miles12
Monastery6.2 miles13
Maryville6.5 miles11
Conception Junction7.2 miles11

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 ArkoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954840The 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 713384. 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.