Chula, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cream Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64635. The Survey maps it on the Chula quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChula fell from 210 to 195 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 | 210 | |
| 2020 | 195 | -15 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1924 USGS Chula quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Chula quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Chula quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
237 words on this townshipPast and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Cream Ridge Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Cream Ridge Township - 237 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chula: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wells Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chula in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | $20,000 | A hayshed was lifted off its foundation and a combine was lifted and thrown by thunderstorm winds. Tree limbs up to 12 inches in diameter were broken and thrown about. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | - | Estimated 60 mph winds near Chula. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Chula | - | This report was gained via social media. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated to gust to 75 mph. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | - | Large tree down on Highway KK. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | - | Large trees reported down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | - | Large trees reported down. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Chula | - | The Livingston County Sheriffif office reported dime-size hail 2 miles southeast of Chula. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chula | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Chula | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Chula | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niantic | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Sturges | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Leopolis (historical) | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Farmersville | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Harmony (historical) | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Silverleaf | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cream Ridge | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Springhill | 9.6 miles | 12 |
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 Chula | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966882 | 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 715830. 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.
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.







