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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.

Armstrong within Howard County

Population over time

2 figures

Armstrong 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.

YearPeople Change
2010284
2020243-41 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Prairie township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Howard and Chariton Counties, Missouri : Written and Compiled from the Most Official Authentic and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri .., published 1883 - Prairie Township

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.

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In the county-history sources

59,164 words on this township

The 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Randolph QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$4,000A metal roof was blown off a house. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
May 2019Tornado (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 2016FloodArmstrong-Law enforcement across the county reported several roads closed due to lingering flooding from heavy rains.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindArmstrong-The mayor of Armstrong reported downed tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindArmstrong-Severe thunderstorm winds knocked over 6 inch diameter tree limbs in Armstrong.
May 1994HailArmstrong-The county agriculture office reported large hail over much of northern Howard County.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindArmstrong-no account filed
June 2005HailArmstrong-no account filed
June 2004HailArmstrong-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Steinmetz3.8 miles16
Burton6.1 miles16
Glasgow8.2 miles16
Fayette8.6 miles16
Bunker Hill9.7 miles16
Punkin Center11.2 miles16
Sebree13.4 miles16
Landmark (historical)14.6 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 ArmstrongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966822The 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.