Lafayette County, Missouri

103 topographic sheets cover 27 settlements here, and 32 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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“He was shot in his yard by the bushwhackers, part of whom are said to have been Dave Poole's men, and part Todd's. The house was burned with its entire contents; Mrs. Prigmore and her sister-in-law, a cripple, escaping with nothing but the clothes they wore.”
Murder Of Judge Wm. Prigmore - History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .. (1881). Machine-read text.

32 National Register listings published here · the county-history sources tell 14 stories and name 294 people · people the book names include Mrs. Lou Abney (Davis Township, 1881) · Noah P. Adams (Sni-A-Bar Township, 1881) (machine-read).

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

Missouri within the United States

Lafayette County within Missouri

What the record shows

469 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
32 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 25 buildings, 5 districts and 2 sites.
4 of the 32 listings were added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 27 populated places in this county; 27 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
2 public-domain county histories, 1881 and 1910, supply 162,980 words of narrative reproduced here.

What happened here

14 accounts

Among them: Bushwhacking And Bank Robbery; Dark Deeds; James H. Hannah. These passages come from the identified county-history source books. Each inset names its own source and opens the exact section it comes from.

From Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910 - Freedom Township

Bushwhacking And Bank Robbery

In 1863, during the Civil war strife, a party of thirty-five bushwhackers came across Davis creek to where Concordia now stands and killed Lewis Fiene, William Schornhorst, D. Karston and Conrad Bruns. They were made to stand up in a row, and when the shooting at them commenced some started to run, but all were finally killed.

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From History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881 - Clay Township

Dark Deeds

Among the incidents worthy of here being recorded are the following: During the Civil war days James Johnson, who lived at Bates City, was killed by a band of "Kansas Jayhawkers," supposed to have been at the instigation of a negro, whom he had once whipped while acting as constable in his township. The act was forced upon him by law, but the dire spirit of revenge upon the part of the black man caused him to call upon these troops, who took Mr.

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James H. Hannah

P. O. Greenton, Missouri; was born in Jefferson county, Virginia, and there raised and educated. In 1855 he came to Missouri, and settled in Saline county, where he lived several years. During the war he moved to this county, where he has since lived, engaged in farming. In 1861 he enlisted in the southern army, and was in the battles of Coon's Creek, and in all the battles of Price's retreat from the state, and captured near Cane Hill, and kept prisoner a short time.

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Deeds Of Violence

The following is given by Mr. Eli Adams: In the spring of 1841, Mrs. Mary Scott and her son, King B. Scott, were murdered in this township. Mrs. Scott's body was found in the fire in the house. In the spring of 1843, two years afterward, the body of King B. Scott was found in a branch of the Sni. Suspicion rested upon John C.

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James P. Proctor

P. O. Odessa. Son of Thomas and Polly Proctor. Was born in Kentucky, and came with his parents to this state in 1838. In 1867 he married Mrs. Rachel Helm, widow of James Helm and daughter of Charles Glover. In 1861 he enlisted under Gen Shelby in the confederate army, and fought in several battles. Was captured near Lexington, and confind until the end of the war.

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Noah P. Adams

P. O. Odessa. Was born in this county in 1844, and was married to Miss Mary E. Muir, December 1, 1870. In 1861 he enlisted in the Missouri state guard, then in the confederate army and served to the end of the war. Was in the battles of Lexington, Lone Jack, Westport, and Drywood, where he was captured and confined at Rock Island to the close of war.

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Wm. T. Gammon

The subject of the following sketch is a native of Pocahontas county, W. Va.; born August 6, 1826. Was raised and educated there. In 1861 he enlisted in the confederate army, joining the 25th Virginia Regiment. Was elected captain of his company. At the battle of Cross Keys, June 8, 1862, he was severely wounded, and failing to improve where he was, he went to Georgia for the purpose of recruiting his health.

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The Hospital Episode

The Federals had occupied as a hospital the then magnificent residence of Oliver Anderson, Esq., a two-and-a-half story brick building, down the slope about twenty rods west from the outer line of their intrenchments [See diagram,] and several hundred rods from the " Masonic College. " On top of this building there was a yellow flag displayed, marking it as a hospital, and in it were 24 sick and 96 wounded, according to Mulligan's report.

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Fkdearl Operations

As soon as word was sent to Mulligan that the hospital had been captured, he ordered a German company, of Peabody's regiment, to retake it. This company, Mulligan says, refused to go outside of the breastwork, saying: "We shall go not out, for it is bad to go out!" A company of White's home guards was then ordered to "go out," but it would "go not out." "Then," Mulligan says, "the Montgomery guards, Capt.

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Battle Items

A careful reckoning of the killed and wounded mentioned in the official reports of nine different Confederate officers gives a total of 38 killed and 150 wounded.* This is supposed to have included only those who were enrolled as soldiers, and whose absences were thus accounted for at rollcall. The number of killed and wounded among the thousands who took part in this battle but were not enlisted soldiers, can never be ascertained; but there is no reason to doubt that the killed and wounded among this class were quite as many as among the enrolled men.

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History Of Lafayette Count V.

(See article headed " Lafayette Men's First Battle.") The other one was an iron six-pounder, one of the two that had been cast at Morrison's foundry. A brass six-pounder from Independence was afterwards added to the battery. But during the course of the war Bledsoe's battery lost, captured, exploded and wore out guns, so that first and last it had in use every kind of gun known to modern artillery service - howitzers, parrotts, Rodmans, Napoleons, - brass, iron, steel amalgum ; rifled and smoothe bores.

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Deeds Of Violence

A federal paymaster having in his possession $55,000, which he was transporting to Marshall, Saline county, with a guard of 25 men, commanded by Capt. Perry, had stopped at the residence of Alfred P. Lewis, " for the purpose of remaining overnight. While there they were attacked by a company of bushwhackers, led by Dave Blount, who captured the vehicle which contained the money, securely locked up in a strong box, and its guard of three pickets.

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Murder Of Judge Wm. Prigmore

This murder occurred October 10, 1864. He was shot in his yard by the bushwhackers, part of whom are said to have been Dave Poole's men, and part Todd's. The house was burned with its entire contents; Mrs. Prigmore and her sister-in-law, a cripple, escaping with nothing but the clothes they wore.

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Harrison Luttrell

P. O., Aullville, Mo., son of Richard and Polly Luttrell. Was born Feb. 3, 1835, in Clinton county, Ohio, where he was raised and educated. He continued on his father's farm until 1861, when he enlisted in the union army uuder Gen. Sherman, Co., D, 48th Ohio regiment, and was in the army three years. He was wounded once, in the shoulder by a minnie ball, at Arkansas Post; was discharged at Indianapolis, and returned home.

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Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Anderson House and Lexington Battlefield	site	1969	69000110
Napoleon Buck House	building	1997	97001431
Minatree Catron House	building	1997	97001432
John E. Cheatham House	building	1993	93000550
Chicago and Alton Railroad Depot at Higginsville	building	1987	87000451
Commercial Community Historic District	district	1983	83001025
Confederate Chapel, Cemetery and Cottage	building	1981	81000335
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	building	1978	78001665
James M. Dinwiddie House	building	1997	97001430
Douglass School	building	2023	100008715
Forest Grove Cemetery	site	2022	100007905
Theodore Gosewisch House	building	1997	97001433
Alexander and Elizabeth Aull Graves House	building	1993	93000552
Hicklin Hearthstone	building	1982	82000585
Hicklin School	building	2004	04000088
Highland Avenue Historic District	district	1983	83001026
House at 1413 Lafayette St.	building	1999	99000379
Houx-Hoefer-Rehkop House	building	1983	83001027
David John House	building	1993	93000553
George Johnson House	building	1993	93000554
Lafayette County Courthouse	building	1970	70000339
Linwood Lawn	building	1973	73001044
Machpelah Cemetery	district	2022	100007825
Odessa Ice Cream Company Building	building	1996	96001065
Old Neighborhoods Historic District	district	1983	83001028
Robinson, William, P., House	building	1997	97001428
Thomas Shelby House	building	1997	97001429
Spratt-Allen-Aull House	building	1993	93000555
Thomas Talbot and Rebecca Walton Smithers Stramcke House	building	1999	99001208
D. W. B. and Julia Waddell Tevis House	building	1993	93000556
Waddell House	building	1979	79001378
Wentworth Military Academy	district	1980	80002373

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

74 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 74 of them, burning about 559 acres. None started naturally and 1 was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 January 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 January 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	59 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	178627-05438-04082019-2253
26 March 1992	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 October 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	251180-05438-10172020-1312
10 January 2018	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177732-05440-01102018-1929

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1958 to 2025

60 of 392 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 392 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 5 injuries and about $5,104,560 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Thunderstorm Wind	159
Hail	157
Tornado	29
Flash Flood	24
Flood	20
Funnel Cloud	3

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1977	Tornado (F3)	not stated	1 killed, 5 hurt, $2,500,000	no account filed
May 2002	Flash Flood	Odessa	$800,000	Junction of highway 131 and county road FF closed due to high water.
May 2003	Tornado (F2)	Corder	$500,000	Tornado reported near Corder and tracked northeast into Saline county. destoyed a machine shed, house with grain bins damaged along with a dairy barn.
March 2006	Hail	Emma	$300,000	Large hail damaged many automobiles and homes.
June 1960	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$250,000	no account filed
June 1958	Tornado (F2)	not stated	$250,000	no account filed
May 2000	Tornado (F1)	Lexington	$75,000	A tornado, witnessed by two citizens, destroyed several outbuildings and damaged the roof of an earth-contact home 7 miles southeast of Lexington, MO.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellington	$75,000	Severe thunderstorm winds snapped 3 large trees at their bases and flattened a gazebo in Wellington. Also in Wellington, a porch which was still intact blew on top of the roof of a trailer. Power lines and numerous trees were blown down in Lexington. In Waverly, several trees 12 to 24 inches in diameter were blown down. Numerous power outages were reported in Odessa as a result of the thunderstorms.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$25,000	Trees and power lines were downed along Highway 224 just west of Lexington. An empty boxcar was knocked off a nearby railroad track.
August 1999	Flood	Concordia	$25,000	High water covered State Highway 23 in Concordia. Newspaper accounts indicate that gravel was washed from some streets in and near Concordia, and the blacktop was ripped off of part of another street.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Corder	$25,000	A mobile home was destroyed in Corder.
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Higginsville	$25,000	A severe thunderstorm dropped up to golfball size hail on Bates City, and then went on to develop 2 weak tornadoes. The first tornado touched down south of Bates City at 1820 CST and was crossing Interstate 70 3 miles west of Odessa at 1831 CST. Only minor tree damage was reported. It then lifted north of Odessa. A second touchdown occurred about 5 miles northwest of Higginsville at 1845 CST. The track took it across State Route 13 5 miles northwest of Higginsville near the Tabo Creek bridge at 1900 CST. At 1905 CST, the tornado crossed Route 213 3 miles southwest of Dover, and then lifted 1 mile southwest of Dover at 1906 CST. A house along state Route 13, 6 miles southeast of the junction with Route E, had shingles removed from the roof as the funnel apparently lifted as it passed overhead. Eyewitnesses reported that the tornado bounced up and down as it continued on a path about 4.5 miles to the east-northeast. The damage path varied from about 30 to 40 yards wide, with most of the path over cultivated farm fields. Most damage was minimal, but the most significant damage occurred at the Humfeldt farm 2.6 miles south of U.S. Route 24 along state Route 213. A corrugated steel equipment building was destroyed when the south and west walls were blown in, and the roof was partially peeled off. There was only minor damage to the equipment inside. The tornado passed to the south of the house and garage, missing them by 25 feet. Only one shutter was blown off of the upper floor of the house with no other damage. Mud was splattered on all four sides of both the house and garage. The tornado was photographed as it was dissipating, in its rope stage between 1901 and 1906 CST. In addition, tree damage occurred in Corder with the gust front ahead of the parent thunderstorm.
March 2006	Hail	Concordia	$25,000	no account filed
May 1968	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
June 1958	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
June 1958	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Myrick	$20,000	A tree was on a vehicle near Wellington on HWY 224.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$12,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew a tree into a house in Lexington.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dover	$10,000	Power lines were downed near Dover.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Alma	$10,000	Power lines were downed near Alma.
June 2000	Tornado (F0)	Lexington	$10,000	A law enforcement officer reported that the tornado touched down just southeast of Lexington and moved east for 1 mile. Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayview	$10,000	Storm spotters reported downed trees and power lines, and damage to a roof.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	$10,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew a large tree onto the roof of a house in Concordia.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates City	$7,000	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	$5,000	Damage to trees around a Sonic on Highway 131. Tree came down and took out some power lines.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	$5,000	Construction trailer blown over on Highway 40. Also some power lines down.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Alma	$5,000	Poles and power lines down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Higginsville	$5,000	Roof blown off car wash.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates City	$5,000	A strong thunderstorm over western Lafayette County knocked down trees and power lines. In Bates City, a barn was destroyed and there was minor damage to some homes.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates City	$5,000	Numerous trees were downed near Z and TT highways, 2 to 3 miles south of Bates city, partially blocking the roads.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Higginsville	$5,000	Large trees were uprooted and dime-size hail fell.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	$4,000	A severe thunderstorm moved through Northeast Lafayette County. Trees and power lines were reported down in Waverly as winds gusted to 70 MPH.
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Bates City -	$3,000	A severe thunderstorm dropped up to golfball size hail on Bates City, and then went on to develop 2 weak tornadoes. The first tornado touched down south of Bates City at 1820 CST and was crossing Interstate 70 3 miles west of Odessa at 1831 CST. Only minor tree damage was reported. It then lifted north of Odessa. A second touchdown occurred about 5 miles northwest of Higginsville at 1845 CST. The track took it across State Route 13 5 miles northwest of Higginsville near the Tabo Creek bridge at 1900 CST. At 1905 CST, the tornado crossed Route 213 3 miles southwest of Dover, and then lifted 1 mile southwest of Dover at 1906 CST. A house along state Route 13, 6 miles southeast of the junction with Route E, had shingles removed from the roof as the funnel apparently lifted as it passed overhead. Eyewitnesses reported that the tornado bounced up and down as it continued on a path about 4.5 miles to the east-northeast. The damage path varied from about 30 to 40 yards wide, with most of the path over cultivated farm fields. Most damage was minimal, but the most significant damage occurred at the Humfeldt farm 2.6 miles south of U.S. Route 24 along state Route 213. A corrugated steel equipment building was destroyed when the south and west walls were blown in, and the roof was partially peeled off. There was only minor damage to the equipment inside. The tornado passed to the south of the house and garage, missing them by 25 feet. Only one shutter was blown off of the upper floor of the house with no other damage. Mud was splattered on all four sides of both the house and garage. The tornado was photographed as it was dissipating, in its rope stage between 1901 and 1906 CST. In addition, tree damage occurred in Corder with the gust front ahead of the parent thunderstorm.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Waverly	$2,500	At 1458CST an EF0 tornado touched down in Waverly. The tornado moved about a tenth of a mile to the east, and lifted at 1503CST. A small portion of a mobile home roof was removed. A small garden shed was damaged. Minor tree damage was reported.
May 1973	Tornado (F2)	not stated	$2,500	no account filed
September 1965	Tornado (F2)	not stated	$2,500	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Aullville	$2,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Trees and power poles were reported down, along with many tree limbs.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Higginsville Jct Arp	$2,000	Power lines were reported down.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	$2,000	The roof of a loafing shed was ripped from a barn. Also a 2x4 board pierced the wall of the garage.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	$2,000	Power lines and several trees down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	$2,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	$1,000	A tree was blown onto powerlines and caused a fire. Thunderstorm winds were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	$1,000	Tree limbs and power lines down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Corder	$1,000	Power lines and tree limbs down.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn.
July 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Waverly	$750	An EF0 tornado or landspout touched down briefly at 1650CST, three miles southeast of Waverly. The tornado was stationary and lifted or dissipated at 1651CST. Tree damage was observed, along with shingle damage to the roof of a residence.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Lexington	$500	At 1338CST a brief EF0 tornado touched down 1 mile east of Lexington, and moved east about a third of a mile, before lifting at 1340CST. Law enforcement reported that one outbuilding was destroyed.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Alma	$500	A brief EF0 tornado touched down at 2323CST and moved northeast, before lifting at 2325CST. The only damage outside of broken tree limbs, was to a porch at a residence just south of Alma.
April 1982	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$250	no account filed
April 1967	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$30	no account filed
June 1967	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$30	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellington	-	Downed tree on Route 131 near Route FF.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Napoleon	-	Downed wires near Old Santa Fe Trail.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Page City	-	Large tree uprooted and split. Cornfield debris strewn across property. Heavy fire pit lifted and moved 10 feet. Metal framing twisted and bent. Metal chairs lifted and moved.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Downed tree limbs in the Lexington area.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Delayed report of downed limbs and a couple of wires near Odessa.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Page City	-	Downed tree limbs near U.S. Highway 24 east of Lexington.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates City	-	Downed wires and several power outages in the Bates City area.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Downed wires near Route WW east of Odessa.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Higginsville Jct Arp	-	Downed wires near Maple Leaf Lake Conservation Area south of Higginsville.

Mines and quarries

44 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 44 workings inside this county. 2 still produce and 42 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Stone, Crushed/Broken	41
Coal	3
Stone, Dimension	2
Sand and Gravel, Construction	1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Site	Commodity	Status
Drivers Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Breuer Qsuarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Walter Boles Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Craddy Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal	Past Producer
Chapel Hill Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Covenant Enterprises	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hoefer Qsuarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horstman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hulver Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jim Thurman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lexington Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Macedonia Squarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mitchell Qsuarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Prock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
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The townships, in 1910

162,980 words

Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 8 are reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.

Township	Settlements in it	Length	Sections
Clay Township	Bates City, Greenton, Napoleon, Waterloo, Wellington	20,313 words	73
Davis Township	Higginsville	45,418 words	95
Dover Township	Corder, Cuba, Dover, Dover Station, Hodge, Page City, Simpson, Tabeau	19,492 words	57
Freedom Township	Aullville, Concordia, Ernestville	4,315 words	10
Lexington Township	Lexington, Myrick	37,082 words	76
Middleton Township	Alma, Waverly	11,815 words	48
Sni-A-Bar Township	Chapel Hill, Lake Lafayette, Odessa	15,129 words	39
Washington Township	Fortyville, Mayview, Oakland	9,416 words	50

The county's history books

411,695 words

2 books written about this county, cut here where the book itself is cut, at its printed chapters: 22 chapters in all. Every chapter is public domain, machine-read from the scan and reproduced complete. A chapter already given under one of the county's towns is not repeated in this list.

History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .. (1881)

Chapter	Length
The whole text	289,291 words in 19 parts

Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (1910)

Chapter	Length
Biographical sketches	2,779 words
Chapter 1: A Pre-Historic Race Nations That Once Held This Territory	2,705 words
Chapter 2: Geology, Topography and Natural History of Lafayette County	3,142 words
Chapter 3: Organization of the County	1,523 words
Chapter 4: Early Settlement of the County	4,851 words
Chapter 5: County Government, Buildings, Etc	3,316 words
Chapter 6: County, State and National Representation	774 words
Chapter 7: Military History of the County	24,221 words in 2 parts
Chapter 8: Church History of the County	21,741 words in 2 parts
Chapter 9: Educational Interests Schools and Colleges	10,708 words
Chapter 10: Secret Societies of the County	2,535 words
Chapter 11: Agriculture and Horticulture	1,757 words
Chapter 12: Railroading, Transportation and Steamboating	5,722 words
Chapter 13: The Bench and Bar	17,346 words in 2 parts
Chapter 14: The Medical Profession in Lafayette County	2,101 words
Chapter 15: Newspapers of Lafayette County	3,838 words
Chapter 16: Banks and Banking	2,574 words
Chapter 19: Dover Township	2,064 words
Chapter 20: Davis Township	2,634 words
Chapter 22: Lexington Township	1,099 words
Chapter 26: Miscellaneous Events of Interest	4,974 words

The people it describes

294 named

Everyone Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri stops to write about, with the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in the words of 1910.

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Alma

Middleton township · 64001 · Alma quadrangle

16 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Aullville

Freedom township · 64037 · On Bear Creek · Higginsville quadrangle

15 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Bates City

Clay township · 64011 · Bates City quadrangle

19 sheets, 1894 to 1983
Chapel Hill

Sni-A-Bar township · 64011 · Chapel Hill quadrangle

13 sheets, 1887 to 1983
Concordia

Freedom township · 64020 · Concordia quadrangle

23 sheets, 1885 to 1983
Corder

Dover township · 64021 · Higginsville quadrangle

15 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Cuba

Dover township · 64096 · On Edwards Branch · Waverly quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982

No longer a settlement
Dover

Dover township · 64022 · Dover quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Dover Station

Dover township · 64067 · On Tabo Creek · Dover quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Ernestville

Freedom township · 64020 · Knob Noster NW quadrangle

22 sheets, 1885 to 1983
Fortyville

Washington township · 64037 · Mayview quadrangle

16 sheets, 1889 to 1982

No longer a settlement
Greenton

Clay township · 64076 · Odessa North quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Higginsville

Davis township · 64037 · On Arndt Creek · Higginsville quadrangle

15 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Hodge

Dover township · 64096 · On Edwards Branch · Dover quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Lake Lafayette

Sni-A-Bar township · 64076 · Near Wagon Knob · Odessa South quadrangle

18 sheets, 1885 to 1983
Lexington

Lexington township · 64067 · Lexington West quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Mayview

Washington township · 64071 · Mayview quadrangle

16 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Myrick

Lexington township · 64067 · Lexington West quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Napoleon

Clay township · 64074 · On Hicklin Branch · Camden quadrangle

21 sheets, 1894 to 1983
Oakland

Washington township · 64076 · On South Davis Creek · Fayetteville quadrangle

19 sheets, 1885 to 1983

No longer a settlement
Odessa

Sni-A-Bar township · 64076 · Odessa South quadrangle

18 sheets, 1885 to 1983
Page City

Dover township · 64037 · On Rocky Ford Branch · Dover quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Simpson

Dover township · 64037 · On Brush Creek · Higginsville quadrangle

15 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Tabeau

Dover township · 64067 · On Tabo Creek · Dover quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Waterloo

Clay township · 64097 · Camden quadrangle

21 sheets, 1894 to 1983
Waverly

Middleton township · 64096 · Waverly quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982
Wellington

Clay township · 64097 · On Sni-A-Bar Creek · Lexington West quadrangle

17 sheets, 1889 to 1982

The vanished settlements of Lafayette County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.