BlockBefore

Aullville, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64037. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Higginsville quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Aullville within Lafayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Aullville fell from 100 to 77 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
2010100
202077-23 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Freedom township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

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.

Read the rest of this passage

In the county-history sources

4,315 words on this township

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 names this settlement in its chapter on Freedom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1857, three years prior to the platting of the town, a church building was erected by the Christian denomination, at a cost of $1,400. The Methodists purchased an interest in it, and occupied it a portion of the time. It has since been taken down and moved to Aullville, where it is entirely under the auspices of the Christians, the Methodists having a house of their own. Prior to the construction of the Lexington & St. Louis railroad, Freedom was a town of considerable importance; but rapidly declined after it was built and Aullville laid out. Since then every business enterprise, with the exception of a blacksmith shop, owned by L. C. Matthews, has been moved to Aullville. The postoffice was kept at Dr. Wilborn's, for a time, and afterwards in Mr. Kane's store.

Passage source: 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.

Freedom Chapel, of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, was organized in about the year 1842, at which time the church building was erected. It is located on section 11, township 48, and range 25. The original members were, Dr. H. Davis, George Davis, David Mock, Sr., and David Mock, Jr., John W. Walker, William and Nathaniel Davis. The church is a frame building, built by the community, who contributed the labor and material.

Passage source: 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.

The Chihuahua Grange, No. 14.38, in this township was instituted by Lewis Neal and the date of its charter is Jan. 24, 1874. The names of the charter members are Julius D. Clarkson, Wm. H. Pilkington, James A. Anderson, Theodore Wilson, John H. Wilson, Philip Atkinson, Wm. Means, Hugh M. Pool, Charles R. Anderson, Mrs. Nancy Mathews, Julia Clarkson, Mrs. Nancy Mathews, Jr., James Mathews. First Master, J. D. Clarkson ; O., Wm. H. Pickington ; Lecturer, J. A. Anderson ; Steward, The. C. Wilson, A. S., J. H. Wilson; Chaplain, P. E. x\tkinson; Treasurer, W.H. Means; Secretary, H. M. Pool; G. K., C. R. Anderson; C, Mrs. Nancy Mathews; P., Julia Clarkson; Flora, Lucy Wilson; Lady Assistant S., Miss Nannie Dalton.

Passage source: 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.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Freedom Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

29 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Aullville between 2014 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178149-05438-07042018-1613
8 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178148-05438-06082018-1320
5 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190465-05438-06052019-1206
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178147-05438-05082018-1320
10 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation139133-02459-05102016-1727
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined59 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178627-05438-04082019-2253
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137762-02459-03052016-1328

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aullville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hoefer QsuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aullville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAullville$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Trees and power poles were reported down, along with many tree limbs.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAullville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree 3 feet in diameter.
May 2011Funnel CloudAullville-no account filed
April 2003HailAullville-no account filed
May 2002HailAullville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Higginsville4.3 miles15
Corder5.9 miles15
Simpson5.9 miles15
Concordia6.3 miles23
Ernestville6.4 miles22
Fortyville (historical)6.9 miles16
Page City8.0 miles17
Mayview8.4 miles16

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 AullvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2477476The 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 713484. 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.

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.