Clarksdale, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64430. The Survey maps it on the Clarksdale quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClarksdale fell from 271 to 245 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 | 271 | |
| 2020 | 245 | -26 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1923 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1925 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clarksdale: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Storms near this place
23 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksdale in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksdale | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated up to 60 mph, caused damage to a machine shed and grain elevator. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksdale | - | Downed tree limbs and power wires. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Clarksdale | - | Numerous roads across Dekalb County were submerged, with some water rescues in Clarksdale. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Clarksdale | - | State Route P was closed due to flooding along Third Fork. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Clarksdale | - | State Route V was closed for flooding along Third Fork Creek. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksdale | - | A small tree limb was blown down. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | Three quarter inch hail reported in Clarksdale. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Clarksdale | - | Water over road on Route O from county roads J to N. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | The De Kalb County Sheriff's Office reported golfball-size hail in Clarksdale during a severe thunderstorm. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | The Clarksdale Fire Department reported dime-size hail in Clarksdale. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Clarksdale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boxford (historical) | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Bayfield (historical) | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Stewartsville | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Oak | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Amity | 7.2 miles | 15 | |
| Orchid | 9.6 miles | 17 | |
| Wood | 10.8 miles | 15 | |
| Maysville | 11.3 miles | 15 |
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 Clarksdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962186 | 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 729458. 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.







