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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.

Bronaugh within Vernon County

Population over time

2 figures

Bronaugh 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.

YearPeople Change
2010249
2020163-86 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Moundville township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911 - Moundville Township

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.

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In the county-history sources

3,475 words on this township

History 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 2006

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
20 April 2019Debris and open burning4.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178950-10846-04202019-1746
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresMissouri Department of ConservationBUSHWACKER FIRE
16 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178949-10846-03162019-2120
14 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178948-10846-02092019-2017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jones Rock Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Palmer Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Vernon County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026HailBronaugh$25,000,000A 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBronaugh$15,000Thunderstorm 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 1999Thunderstorm WindBronaugh$8,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBronaugh$1,000no account filed
April 1996HailBronaugh$1,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBronaugh-A tree was snapped off.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBronaugh-A large tree limb was broken by estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBronaugh-Several large tree limbs were blown down on to a home in Bronaugh.
June 2013FloodBronaugh-Route N was closed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBronaugh-Trees were blown down from thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBronaugh-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees in the southwest portion of the county. The Bronaugh area appeared to be impacted the greatest.
May 2011HailBronaugh-no account filed
March 2010HailBronaugh-no account filed
May 2007HailBronaugh-no account filed
May 2007HailBronaugh-no account filed
May 2007HailBronaugh-no account filed
March 2007HailBronaugh-no account filed
September 2003HailBronaugh-no account filed
March 2003HailBronaugh-no account filed
March 2003HailBronaugh-no account filed
July 2003HailBronaugh-no account filed
April 2002HailBronaugh-no account filed
June 1998HailBronaugh-no account filed
June 1996HailBronaugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vernon 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
Moundville4.9 miles21
Swart7.2 miles24
Ellis9.1 miles21
Milo9.6 miles21
Sheldon9.7 miles17
Deerfield10.2 miles24
Katy10.7 miles24
Nassau Junction11.7 miles21

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 BronaughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2162802The 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.