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.
Population over time
2 figuresArkoe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 56 | -12 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Maryville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Maryville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maryville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
456 words on this townshipPast 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 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176790-07437-04112018-1544 |
| 10 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 166017-07437-03102018-1213 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Arkoe Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dagun Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elliot Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Arkoe | - | A weak tornado formed near Maryville, but caused little to no damage outside of some tree damage in rural Nodaway County. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Arkoe | - | Route U was closed in both directions from Arkoe to Keystone Rd. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Arkoe | - | Water over Highway 71 near Degase Feed, making the road impassable. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Arkoe | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arkoe | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedison | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Pumpkin Center | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Whitecloud | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Bell Grove | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Barnard | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Monastery | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Maryville | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Conception Junction | 7.2 miles | 11 |
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 Arkoe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954840 | 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 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.





