BlockTallapoosa, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63878. The Survey maps it on the Parma quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTallapoosa fell from 168 to 78 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 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -90 (-54%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1940 USGS Malden quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Malden quadrangle1:62500
- 1978 USGS Parma quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tallapoosa: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tallapoosa in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallapoosa | $20,000 | The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported 70 to 80 MPH winds near the Interstate 55 junction with U.S. 62. Trees were down. At Tallapoosa, several tractor trailers were overturned, and sheds were down. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallapoosa | $7,000 | There was significant damage to a barn. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Spur | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hartzell | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Risco | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Lone Star | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Baderville | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Baxter | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Frailie | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Jaywye | 6.5 miles | 11 |
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 Tallapoosa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962801 | 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 727441. 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.