Armstrong, Missouri
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65230. The Survey maps it on the Armstrong quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArmstrong fell from 284 to 243 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 | 284 | |
| 2020 | 243 | -41 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1890 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Armstrong quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Prairie township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
General Ignatius P. Owen
Davis was a. ji'.wver of some eminence, and afterwanU- tilled several important ofKcial positions in Howard count}'. General (.)wL'n had commanded the militia in the early history of the county, and had been honored with the title of lirigadier g'eneral. At tiie time lie was killed, he was the proprietor of a hotel which stood upion the corner now oceu})ied hv the Inisiness house, of Bonghner, Tolson i^ Smith.
In the county-history sources
59,164 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Prairie Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Prairie Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Armstrong: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randolph Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | $4,000 | A metal roof was blown off a house. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Armstrong | - | A weak and brief tornado formed near Armstrong. Little to no damage and no injuries were reported as a result of this tornado. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Armstrong | - | Law enforcement across the county reported several roads closed due to lingering flooding from heavy rains. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | - | The mayor of Armstrong reported downed tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | - | Severe thunderstorm winds knocked over 6 inch diameter tree limbs in Armstrong. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Armstrong | - | The county agriculture office reported large hail over much of northern Howard County. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Armstrong | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Armstrong | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steinmetz | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Burton | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Glasgow | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Fayette | 8.6 miles | 16 | |
| Bunker Hill | 9.7 miles | 16 | |
| Punkin Center | 11.2 miles | 16 | |
| Sebree | 13.4 miles | 16 | |
| Landmark (historical) | 14.6 miles | 15 |
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 Armstrong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966822 | 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 713388. 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.
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.






