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.
Population over time
3 figuresReeds 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 103 | |
| 2010 | 95 | -8 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 91 | -4 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1921 USGS Sarcoxie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Reeds quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
27,076 words on this townshipThe 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 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcclurgs Place | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Zn | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Marble Head Lime Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sarcoxie Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ss | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ss | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| A.A. Griebe Land | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Aristo Mine #2 | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| D and C Mining Co. | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | 1912 |
Storms near this place
20 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reeds | $50,000 | Several power lines were reported down. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Reeds | - | Flooding occurred at the Spring River and State Highway 37. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Reeds | - | State Highway 37 at the Spring River was closed due to flooding from heavy rainfall. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Reeds | - | State Highway 37 was closed at the Spring River due to flooding. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Reeds | - | Missouri Highway 37 at the Spring River was closed due to flooding. |
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Reeds | - | Highway 37 was closed at the the Spring River low water crossing due to flooding. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Reeds | - | Highway 37 was closed at the Spring River due to flooding. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Reeds | - | Highway 37 was closed due to flooding at the the Spring River low water crossing. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Reeds | - | State Highway 37 was closed due to flooding along the Spring River. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reeds | - | A trained spotter reported a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reeds | - | A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds. |
| May 2017 | Flood | Reeds | - | State Highway 37 was closed due to flooding along the Spring River. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Reeds | - | State Highway 37 was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Reeds | - | Hail up to the size of ping pong balls were reported in Reeds. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Reeds | - | There was a high water rescue near Fir Road and County Road 80. There were several flooded roads in the Avilla area. |
| March 2012 | Flood | Reeds | - | Highway 37 near the Spring River was flooded. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reeds | - | A law enforcement officer observed 60 mph wind gusts. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Reeds | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Reeds | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Reeds | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motley | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Sarcoxie | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Knights | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Parshley | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Forest Mills | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Avilla | 5.8 miles | 18 | |
| La Russell | 5.8 miles | 18 | |
| Maxville | 7.8 miles | 17 |
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 Reeds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962938 | The 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.










