Carl Junction, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Twin Groves Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64834. The Survey maps it on the Carl Junction quadrangle. 8,143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCarl Junction grew from 7,445 to 8,143 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 | 7,445 | |
| 2020 | 8,143 | +698 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Carl Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Carl Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 March 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 March 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cherokee County | 92 |
| 21 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 27 acres | Cherokee County | 90 |
| 26 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 261399-04936-12262020-1350 |
| 23 December 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 196 |
| 1 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 261459-04936-11012020-0430 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 471 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 471 workings within 5 miles of Carl Junction: 469 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klondike Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Mattes Bros. Chat Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Opossum Hollow Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Belleville Strip Pit | Zinc | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Crane-Chenoweth Tract | Zinc | Past Producer | 1926, 1927 | |
| Isherwood Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1925, 1926 | |
| Pearl Lease | Zinc | Past Producer | 1910, 1912 | |
| Weaver Lease | Zinc | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| 1915 Mine East Shafts | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Aberdeen Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carl Junction in 1 storm report in 1996: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Carl Junction | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stringtown | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| Gulfton | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Smithfield | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Thoms | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Klondike | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Airport Drive | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Tuckahoe | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Belleville | 3.8 miles | 19 |
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 Carl Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953178 | 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 715396. 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.









