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Reeds, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sarcoxie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64859. The Survey maps it on the Reeds quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Reeds within Jasper County

Population over time

3 figures

Reeds fell from 103 to 91 between 2000 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
2000103
201095-8 (-8%)
202091-4 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

27,076 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Sarcoxie Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sarcoxie Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Reeds: 35 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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
Mcclurgs PlaceLeadPast Producer
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer
Marble Head Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sarcoxie QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
A.A. Griebe LandLead, ZincPast Producer
Aristo Mine #2Zinc, LeadPast Producer
D and C Mining Co.Zinc, LeadPast Producer1912

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

20 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reeds in 20 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 9 flood, 4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindReeds$50,000Several power lines were reported down.
June 2025FloodReeds-Flooding occurred at the Spring River and State Highway 37.
April 2024Flash FloodReeds-State Highway 37 at the Spring River was closed due to flooding from heavy rainfall.
May 2022FloodReeds-State Highway 37 was closed at the Spring River due to flooding.
June 2021Flash FloodReeds-Missouri Highway 37 at the Spring River was closed due to flooding.
March 2020Flash FloodReeds-Highway 37 was closed at the the Spring River low water crossing due to flooding.
May 2020FloodReeds-Highway 37 was closed at the Spring River due to flooding.
May 2020FloodReeds-Highway 37 was closed due to flooding at the the Spring River low water crossing.
February 2018FloodReeds-State Highway 37 was closed due to flooding along the Spring River.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindReeds-A trained spotter reported a 58 mph wind gust.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindReeds-A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds.
May 2017FloodReeds-State Highway 37 was closed due to flooding along the Spring River.
May 2015FloodReeds-State Highway 37 was closed due to flooding.
April 2014HailReeds-Hail up to the size of ping pong balls were reported in Reeds.
July 2013FloodReeds-There was a high water rescue near Fir Road and County Road 80. There were several flooded roads in the Avilla area.
March 2012FloodReeds-Highway 37 near the Spring River was flooded.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindReeds-A law enforcement officer observed 60 mph wind gusts.
March 2007Flash FloodReeds-Heavy thunderstorms caused the Spring River to flood a low water crossing on Highway 37 north of Reeds. The roadway was impassable to motorists for a few hours. A low water crossing on Tiger Road west of Sarcoxie was flooded making the roadway impassable to motorists. A water rescue occurred at this location after a motorist attempted to cross the low water crossing.
March 2011HailReeds-no account filed
May 2009HailReeds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Motley4.0 miles18
Sarcoxie4.2 miles18
Knights4.8 miles17
Parshley4.9 miles18
Forest Mills4.9 miles18
Avilla5.8 miles18
La Russell5.8 miles18
Maxville7.8 miles17

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 ReedsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962938The 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 725195. 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.