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.
Population over time
2 figuresSpanish 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19,650 | |
| 2020 | 18,413 | -1,237 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 27 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.
- 1927 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1935 USGS Columbia Bottom quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Columbia Bottom quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
- 1955 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Columbia Bottom quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Columbia Bottom quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Hill Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay | Producer | ||
| Bemmey Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Emmerick Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fort Bellefontaine Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2006 | Hail | Spanish Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spanish Lake | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spanish Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to a church. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Spanish 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spanish Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree at the intersection of Highway 367 and Parker Road. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spanish Lake | - | Several large trees were blown down blocking traffic near the intersection of Redman and Bellefontaine Roads. |
| October 2000 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | Reported by local law enforcement agencies. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spanish Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spanish Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Spanish Lake | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larimore | 1.1 miles | 27 | |
| Glasgow Village | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Castle Point | 2.7 miles | 27 | |
| Black Jack | 2.8 miles | 26 | |
| Riverview | 2.8 miles | 28 | |
| Moline Acres | 3.1 miles | 28 | |
| Hathaway Meadows | 3.2 miles | 28 | |
| Bellefontaine Neighbors | 3.3 miles | 28 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q956099 | 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 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.












