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Spanish Lake, Missouri

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Spanish Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63138. The Survey maps it on the Columbia Bottom quadrangle. 18,413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Spanish Lake within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Spanish Lake fell from 19,650 to 18,413 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
201019,650
202018,413-1,237 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Spanish Lake: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Prospect Hill Cement PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Bemmey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Emmerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fort Bellefontaine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spanish Lake in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 hail, 6 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
February 2006HailSpanish Lake$10,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSpanish Lake$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSpanish Lake-Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to a church.
June 2011Flash FloodSpanish Lake-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including the intersection of Page Avenue and Ashby Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSpanish Lake-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree at the intersection of Highway 367 and Parker Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSpanish Lake-Several large trees were blown down blocking traffic near the intersection of Redman and Bellefontaine Roads.
October 2000HailSpanish Lake-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
May 1995HailSpanish Lake-Reported by local law enforcement agencies.
April 2011HailSpanish Lake-no account filed
April 2008HailSpanish Lake-no account filed
March 2006HailSpanish Lake-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSpanish Lake-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSpanish Lake-no account filed
June 1998HailSpanish Lake-no account filed
May 1996HailSpanish Lake-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
Larimore1.1 miles27
Glasgow Village2.5 miles27
Castle Point2.7 miles27
Black Jack2.8 miles26
Riverview2.8 miles28
Moline Acres3.1 miles28
Hathaway Meadows3.2 miles28
Bellefontaine Neighbors3.3 miles28

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 Spanish LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956099The 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 756747. 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.