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Cardwell, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63829. The Survey maps it on the Cardwell quadrangle. 561 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Cardwell within Dunklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Cardwell fell from 713 to 561 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
2010713
2020561-152 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cardwell in 2004, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning1

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
28 February 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Storms near this place

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cardwell in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCardwell$75,000Power lines and trees down in Cardwell. Four streets were blocked. A roof was blown off a building. Several houses had roof and siding damage. Several utility poles were knocked down across southern Dunklin County. A church steeple was blown off in Hornersville.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindCardwell$50,000Straight line winds tore roofs off houses while damaging outbuildings and knocking down trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCardwell$25,000A trailer was rolled over. Several barns and outbuildings were blown down and a couple of roofs were damaged. Several trees were knocked down.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCardwell$10,000Straight line winds caused roof damage to a home and destroyed a shed in Cardwell.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCardwell$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCardwell$10,000Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindCardwell$10,000Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCardwell$10,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
April 2006HailCardwell$8,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCardwell$5,000A metal roof was blown off a home and a few outbuildings were damaged.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCardwell$5,000Trees uprooted and power lines down in Cardwell Area.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCardwell$3,000Numerous trees and large limbs down around southwest portions of the county. Minor roof damage to a few structures was also noted.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCardwell$2,000Damage to roof of new building at Main Street and Highway 412.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindCardwell$2,000no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindCardwell$1,000A few trees were blown down.
November 2007HailCardwell$1,000no account filed
April 1998HailCardwell$850Hail ranging from quarter to golfball size fell on Cardwell.
February 1997HailCardwell$750no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCardwell$500Large tree down west of Cardwell in a vacant lot on West Poole Street.
April 2003HailCardwell$250no account filed
May 1998HailCardwell$100no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Cardwell$50A tornado briefly touched down near Cardwell producing little damage.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCardwell-Measured gust of 60 mph by the Missouri Mesonet Station.
April 2017Tornado (EF1)Cardwell-A weak tornado moved from Mississippi County into Dunklin County before lifting. Tornado tracked over open farmland.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCardwell-Straight line winds knocked down trees in Cardwell.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCardwell-Straight line winds destroyed a large shop building north of Cardwell.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCardwell-Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines in Cardwell.
June 2010Flash FloodCardwell-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Cardwell. Several streets were flooded as a result.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCardwell-Straight line winds knocked down power lines across Southern Dunklin County.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCardwell-Winds were estimated at 60 mph 2 miles south of Cardwell.
June 2024HailCardwell-no account filed
June 2024HailCardwell-no account filed
March 2022HailCardwell-no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindCardwell-no account filed
March 2017HailCardwell-no account filed
June 2011HailCardwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunklin 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
Buck Donic1.8 miles14
Hargrove2.0 miles14
Riverside2.4 miles14
Arbyrd2.9 miles12
Cockrum3.4 miles14
Paulding3.8 miles12
Red Onion4.4 miles10
Bucoda5.1 miles12

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 CardwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953411The 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 715393. 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.

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.