Excelsior Springs, Missouri

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 10 records

• Colonial Hotellisted 2010
• Elms Hotellisted 1985
• Elms, The, Historic Districtlisted 2014
• Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial East Historic Districtlisted 1999
• Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial West Historic Districtlisted 1999
• First Methodist Churchlisted 2009
• Hall of Waterslisted 1983
• Ligon Apartmentslisted 2010
• Wyman Schoollisted 2008
• Boarding House Districtlisted 2018

Excelsior Springs fell from 11,084 to 10,553 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.

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.

• 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Excelsior Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Excelsior Springs quadrangle1:24000

History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Excelsior Springs between 2011 and 2018, burning about 50 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Crescent Lake
• Claysville
• Chick (historical)
• Coopers
• Greenville
• Mosby

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Excelsior Springs: 21 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Excelsior Springs in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Clay County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 730098. 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.