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Black Jack, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ferguson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63033. The Survey maps it on the Florissant quadrangle. 6,634 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Black Jack within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Black Jack fell from 6,929 to 6,634 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
20106,929
20206,634-295 (-4%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Black Jack: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Bemmey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Emmerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fort Bellefontaine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Jack in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2007Flash FloodBlack Jack-Heavy rain flooded New Halls Ferry Road and several side streets forcing them to be closed for a couple of hours.
August 2022HailBlack Jack-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBlack Jack-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBlack Jack-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
Shoveltown1.7 miles26
Cross Keys2.0 miles26
Castle Point2.6 miles27
Spanish Lake2.8 miles27
Florissant2.9 miles26
Calverton Park3.2 miles26
Dellwood3.2 miles20
Fort Bellefontaine3.2 miles27

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 Black JackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q880344The 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 755778. 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.