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Des Peres, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Missouri River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63131. It stands on South Branch Claychester Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood quadrangle. 9,193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Des Peres within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Des Peres grew from 8,373 to 9,193 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
20108,373
20209,193+820 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Des Peres in 2007, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Des Peres: 27 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Creve Coeur QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kempf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osage Hills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rock Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Des Peres in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDes Peres$5,000Numerous large trees were knocked from high wind. Spotters and the public also reported minor street flooding.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindDes Peres-Thunderstorm winds blew open a strong steel door in Des Peres before splitting a Bradford Pear tree into 2 near Webster Groves. Winds then blew down tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter along Green Park Industrial Drive 1 mile southeast of Lakeshire.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDes Peres-Widespread wind damage occurred along the I-270 corridor in St. Louis County between Kirkwood and Saint Ann. Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Kirkwood, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Woodson Terrace and Saint Ann.
April 2014Flash FloodDes Peres-Up to 4 inches of rain fell in a very short amount of time causing flash flooding. South Fillmore Avenue was flooded near East Monroe. In Maryland Heights, Fee Fee creek rose above its flood stage.
May 2008HailDes Peres-Storm spotters reported one inch hail just northwest of Kirkwood.
April 1998HailDes Peres-Amateur radio spotters reported golfball size hail at Interstate 270 and Manchester Road.
November 2017HailDes Peres-no account filed
April 2014HailDes Peres-no account filed
May 2004HailDes Peres-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDes Peres-no account filed
May 2004HailDes Peres-no account filed
April 2001HailDes Peres-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Crystal Lake Park1.5 miles22
Huntleigh1.6 miles22
Town and Country1.8 miles22
Kirkwood1.8 miles22
Country Life Acres2.0 miles22
Woodhine Heights2.2 miles22
Ozark View2.3 miles22
Osage Hills2.4 miles22

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 Des PeresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960849The 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 755986. 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.