Wardell, Missouri

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Little River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63879. The Survey maps it on the Wardell quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Wardell within Pemiscot County

Population over time

2 figures

Wardell fell from 427 to 310 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	427
2020	310	-117 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1940 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Wardell quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wardell in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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	Wardell	1 hurt, $150,000	Several mobile homes were destroyed. Numerous houses were damaged. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	1 hurt	Straight line winds blew over a mobile home near Homestown in Pemiscot County. One person was injured.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$25,000	Straight line winds blew a tractor-trailer over on Interstate 55 near exit 27. In addition, the Ross Elementary School in Wardell sustained roof damage.
June 1998	Hail	Wardell	$25,000	Several houses had all of their windows broken between Wardell and Hayti.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$25,000	A roof was blown off of a trailer near Hayti. Several trees were knocked down between Wardell and Hayti.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$20,000	Straight line winds blew a large grain bin onto a roadway.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$20,000	Two homes were damaged. A few trees were blown down.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$10,000	Two buildings were severely damaged. A radio tower was also damaged.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$10,000	Some trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$10,000	A building used to store farm equipment was destroyed.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$5,000	Some trees were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down.
May 1995	Hail	Wardell	$5,000	no account filed
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$2,000	Trees snapped or uprooted.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$2,000	Straight line winds knocked down a tree and a power line in Homestown.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wardell	$2,000	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Wardell	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Wardell	$750	no account filed
February 1997	Hail	Wardell	$750	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Wardell	$20	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Wardell	-	Hail estimated at 1.25 inches.
April 2022	Hail	Wardell	-	Quarter-sized hail in Wardell. Dime-sized hail just to the southwest in Bragg City.
December 2015	Hail	Wardell	-	Golf ball size hail fell southwest of Portageville.
February 2011	Flash Flood	Wardell	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Northern Pemiscot county. Water surrounded homes in the community of Homestown.
April 1994	Hail	Wardell	-	The county sheriff reported golf ball-size hail.
May 2020	Hail	Wardell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pemiscot 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Wardell	0.5 miles	8
Keokuk (historical)	0.7 miles	8
Homestown	1.4 miles	8
Garver	2.4 miles	8
Swift	3.7 miles	8
Wilbur (historical)	4.0 miles	8
Brinkerhoff (historical)	4.2 miles	11
Ingram Ridge	4.4 miles	8

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 Wardell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967143	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 728342. 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.

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.