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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.

Clarksdale within DeKalb County

Population over time

2 figures

Clarksdale 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.

YearPeople Change
2010271
2020245-26 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindClarksdale$3,000Thunderstorm winds estimated up to 60 mph, caused damage to a machine shed and grain elevator.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindClarksdale-Downed tree limbs and power wires.
June 2021Flash FloodClarksdale-Numerous roads across Dekalb County were submerged, with some water rescues in Clarksdale.
April 2017FloodClarksdale-State Route P was closed due to flooding along Third Fork.
April 2017FloodClarksdale-State Route V was closed for flooding along Third Fork Creek.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindClarksdale-A small tree limb was blown down.
November 2007HailClarksdale-Three quarter inch hail reported in Clarksdale.
June 2003Flash FloodClarksdale-Water over road on Route O from county roads J to N.
June 1998HailClarksdale-The De Kalb County Sheriff's Office reported golfball-size hail in Clarksdale during a severe thunderstorm.
July 1997HailClarksdale-The Clarksdale Fire Department reported dime-size hail in Clarksdale.
April 2020HailClarksdale-no account filed
June 2010HailClarksdale-no account filed
April 2008Thunderstorm WindClarksdale-no account filed
June 2008HailClarksdale-no account filed
September 2007HailClarksdale-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindClarksdale-no account filed
June 2004HailClarksdale-no account filed
September 2004HailClarksdale-no account filed
April 2003HailClarksdale-no account filed
May 2002HailClarksdale-no account filed
June 2002HailClarksdale-no account filed
September 2000HailClarksdale-no account filed
June 2000HailClarksdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Boxford (historical)3.1 miles17
Bayfield (historical)3.3 miles17
Stewartsville5.2 miles15
Oak5.6 miles17
Amity7.2 miles15
Orchid9.6 miles17
Wood10.8 miles15
Maysville11.3 miles15

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 ClarksdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962186The 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.