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.
Population over time
2 figuresCardwell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 713 | |
| 2020 | 561 | -152 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1940 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Cardwell quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $75,000 | Power 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $50,000 | Straight line winds tore roofs off houses while damaging outbuildings and knocking down trees. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $25,000 | A trailer was rolled over. Several barns and outbuildings were blown down and a couple of roofs were damaged. Several trees were knocked down. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $10,000 | Straight line winds caused roof damage to a home and destroyed a shed in Cardwell. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $10,000 | Some trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $10,000 | Numerous trees were knocked down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cardwell | $8,000 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $5,000 | A metal roof was blown off a home and a few outbuildings were damaged. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $5,000 | Trees uprooted and power lines down in Cardwell Area. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $3,000 | Numerous trees and large limbs down around southwest portions of the county. Minor roof damage to a few structures was also noted. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $2,000 | Damage to roof of new building at Main Street and Highway 412. |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $2,000 | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Cardwell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Cardwell | $850 | Hail ranging from quarter to golfball size fell on Cardwell. |
| February 1997 | Hail | Cardwell | $750 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | $500 | Large tree down west of Cardwell in a vacant lot on West Poole Street. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cardwell | $250 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Cardwell | $100 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Cardwell | $50 | A tornado briefly touched down near Cardwell producing little damage. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | Measured gust of 60 mph by the Missouri Mesonet Station. |
| April 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Cardwell | - | A weak tornado moved from Mississippi County into Dunklin County before lifting. Tornado tracked over open farmland. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | Straight line winds knocked down trees in Cardwell. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | Straight line winds destroyed a large shop building north of Cardwell. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines in Cardwell. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Cardwell | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Cardwell. Several streets were flooded as a result. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | Straight line winds knocked down power lines across Southern Dunklin County. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | Winds were estimated at 60 mph 2 miles south of Cardwell. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Cardwell | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Cardwell | - | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Cardwell | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cardwell | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Cardwell | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cardwell | - | 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.
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 Cardwell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953411 | 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 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.







