Bronaugh, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Moundville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64728. The Survey maps it on the Bronaugh quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBronaugh fell from 249 to 163 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 | 249 | |
| 2020 | 163 | -86 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bronaugh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Moundville township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
The Civil War
A victim of the Civil "War - among the thousands of other vic¬ tims - was Alexander Morgan, a young man who was killed by the jayhawkers in this township in the fall of 1862. Though young Morgan had never taken up arms for either side, he was regarded as a Southern sympathizer, and the jayhawkers claimed that he was "a rebel spy." Jo Ury accused him of "packing news," and he was marked as a doomed man.
In the county-history sources
3,475 words on this townshipHistory of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Moundville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Not long after the Price raid, in the late fall of 1864, a Federal soldier, who was returning to his command at Fort Scott, was killed on what is best known as the Brothers farm (sec. 14), a little west of Little Drywood, and four miles northeast of Bronaugh. The soldier was sick and was caught and killed by some bushwhackers. The body was buried where it fell.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.
The village of Bronaugh, which comprises the northwest quarter of section 20, the south half of the southwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 17, was laid out in the spring of 1886 on the building of the Nevada & Alinden railroad, now the Joplin branch of the Alissouri Pacific railroad, by the Bronaugh Town Company. It was named for AY. C. Bronaugh, the owner of the land where it was built, a resident of Henry county.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.
The village was incorporated as a city of the fourth class in 1897. Its population in 1911 is 450. AYith its location and the extremely rich soil of the country surrounding, which is underlaid with heavy veins of coal, combined with the enter¬ prise of the people living in and adjoining Bronaugh, it is des-
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.
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 Moundville Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bronaugh between 2006 and 2019, burning about 221 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178950-10846-04202019-1746 |
| 27 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 210 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | BUSHWACKER FIRE |
| 16 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178949-10846-03162019-2120 |
| 14 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178948-10846-02092019-2017 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bronaugh: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Rock Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Palmer Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronaugh in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Hail | Bronaugh | $25,000,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced hail from golf ball to tennis balls in size over a swath nearly 32 miles in length from south of Nevada, MO to locations north and east of Nevada. Along this mostly rural path, damage occurred to some roofs of homes and structures, vehicles, multiple RV's, equipment and crops. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | $15,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts blew a mobile home over on its side. At the same location, a roof of a shed was completely blown off. In Bronaugh, the steeple of the Methodist Church was damaged while numerous surrounding trees were damaged. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bronaugh | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | - | A tree was snapped off. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | - | A large tree limb was broken by estimated wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down on to a home in Bronaugh. |
| June 2013 | Flood | Bronaugh | - | Route N was closed. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | - | Trees were blown down from thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronaugh | - | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees in the southwest portion of the county. The Bronaugh area appeared to be impacted the greatest. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Bronaugh | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moundville | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Swart | 7.2 miles | 24 | |
| Ellis | 9.1 miles | 21 | |
| Milo | 9.6 miles | 21 | |
| Sheldon | 9.7 miles | 17 | |
| Deerfield | 10.2 miles | 24 | |
| Katy | 10.7 miles | 24 | |
| Nassau Junction | 11.7 miles | 21 |
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 Bronaugh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2162802 | 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 714737. 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.









