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Eureka, Missouri

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Meramec Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63025. It lies near Bald Hill. The Survey maps it on the Eureka quadrangle. 11,646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Eureka within St. Louis County

On record in Eureka

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Eureka grew from 10,189 to 11,646 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
201010,189
202011,646+1,457 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

28 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 2003 and 2014, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 July 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 June 2014Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot 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 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Eureka: 23 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Renneberg LandFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Renneberg PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bussen Antire Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEureka$15,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEureka-A tree was snapped off on the west side of town.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds blew off shingles on several homes in Eureka and blew down a large tree limb in Maplewood. The tree limb caused minor damage to a car.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds snapped off an eight inch diameter Bradford Pear tree.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindEureka-A microburst moved through the Shaw's Garden Subdivision, blowing down several large trees and numerous tree limbs. A couple of homes and vehicles were damaged by fallen trees or tree limbs. Also, numerous power lines and a couple of power poles were blown down. The damage extended across Highway 109 into the Augustine Heights Subdivision snapping off a couple of large trees as well as tree limbs.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEureka-Amateur radio spotters reported large tree limbs down.
May 2004HailEureka-Storm spotters reported nickel size hail along Interstate 44.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds blow down a couple of large trees just west of Eureka along I-44.
April 2016HailEureka-no account filed
April 2016Thunderstorm WindEureka-no account filed
April 2016HailEureka-no account filed
May 2016HailEureka-no account filed
June 2009HailEureka-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEureka-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEureka-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindEureka-no account filed
April 1997HailEureka-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
Times Beach (historical)1.4 miles29
Crescent1.7 miles29
Allenton2.5 miles28
Camp Wyman2.6 miles28
Glencoe2.9 miles29
Yeatman2.9 miles29
Sherman3.1 miles29
Jedburgh3.5 miles29

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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961919The 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 756031. 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.