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Berkeley, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Norwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63134. The Survey maps it on the Florissant quadrangle. 8,228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Berkeley within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Berkeley fell from 8,978 to 8,228 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
20108,978
20208,228-750 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Berkeley in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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

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
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Berkeley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Evans and Howard Mine Number FiveClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berkeley in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2004Tornado (F1)Berkeley1 killed, $100,000A tornado formed near I-170 and Frost Avenue in Berkeley causing F1 damage to the roof of a business and several apartment buildings. On Frost Avenue, a 15 inch branch from an elm tree fell on a SUV killing the driver. The tornado weakened and caused mainly tree top damage as it moved east northeast The tornado crossed New Florissant Road and entered Calverton Park where several large trees and power lines were downed. The tornado dissipated as it approached North Elizabeth Avenue.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBerkeley$25,000A building on Romiss Court lost a small part of its roof and had one wall pushed inward.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindBerkeley-The public reported a carport blown over in Woodson Terrace.
May 2025HailBerkeley-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBerkeley-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBerkeley-no account filed
April 2003HailBerkeley-no account filed
April 1997HailBerkeley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Kinloch1.0 miles20
Calverton Park1.2 miles26
Ferguson1.5 miles20
Cool Valley2.2 miles20
Edmundson2.2 miles20
Hazelwood2.4 miles26
Florissant2.4 miles26
Dellwood2.4 miles20

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 BerkeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967070The 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 755756. 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.