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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.

Carl Junction within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Carl 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,445
20208,143+698 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

9 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCherokee County92
21 March 2017Arson/incendiarism27 acresCherokee County90
26 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation261399-04936-12262020-1350
23 December 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service196
1 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261459-04936-11012020-0430

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 471 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Klondike PitClayPast Producer
Mattes Bros. Chat PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Opossum Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Belleville Strip PitZincPast Producer1900
Crane-Chenoweth TractZincPast Producer1926, 1927
Isherwood MineZincPast Producer1925, 1926
Pearl LeaseZincPast Producer1910, 1912
Weaver LeaseZincPast Producer1913
1915 Mine East ShaftsLead, ZincPast Producer
Aberdeen MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Flash FloodCarl Junction-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Stringtown0.9 miles18
Gulfton1.2 miles18
Smithfield2.1 miles18
Thoms2.3 miles18
Klondike2.8 miles18
Airport Drive3.7 miles18
Tuckahoe3.8 miles18
Belleville3.8 miles19

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 JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953178The 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.