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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.

Chula within Livingston County

Population over time

2 figures

Chula 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.

YearPeople Change
2010210
2020195-15 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

237 words on this township

Past 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wells QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindChula$20,000A 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 2004Thunderstorm WindChula$3,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindChula-Estimated 60 mph winds near Chula.
April 2015HailChula-This report was gained via social media.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindChula-Thunderstorm winds were estimated to gust to 75 mph.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindChula-Large tree down on Highway KK.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChula-Large trees reported down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChula-Large trees reported down.
May 1997HailChula-The Livingston County Sheriffif office reported dime-size hail 2 miles southeast of Chula.
March 2017HailChula-no account filed
June 2015HailChula-no account filed
June 2015HailChula-no account filed
May 2011HailChula-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindChula-no account filed
May 2005HailChula-no account filed
May 2004HailChula-no account filed
May 2004HailChula-no account filed
May 2004HailChula-no account filed
June 2004HailChula-no account filed
April 2003HailChula-no account filed
April 2002HailChula-no account filed
May 1994HailChula-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Niantic3.2 miles14
Sturges3.4 miles12
Leopolis (historical)4.4 miles14
Farmersville4.5 miles12
Harmony (historical)5.0 miles14
Silverleaf7.6 miles12
Cream Ridge9.4 miles14
Springhill9.6 miles12

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 ChulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966882The 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.