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Concordia, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64020. The Survey maps it on the Concordia quadrangle. 2,371 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Concordia within Lafayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Concordia fell from 2,450 to 2,371 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
20102,450
20202,371-79 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

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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; Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Freedom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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.

Eighty-five years ago the first white man invaded the territory embraced within Freedom township. His name was Patrick Henry, who effected a settlement in the eastern portion of the township. A little later, the western portion of the township was settled by Samuel and John Scott. James and Chris Mulkey located in what became known as Mulkey's Grove, about two and a half miles southeast of the present village of Aullville. Classed as early comers to the township may be named these : Doctor Davis, Nat. Davis, William Davis, David Mock, Jacob Phillip, George and David Welborn, Brooks Wellington, John Walker, James Atterberry and Daniel Greenwood. These nearly all located around the old town of Freedom.

Passage source: Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910.

Freedom (now a defunct village of this township) was laid out in i860, by Franklin Mock, on section 9, township 48, range 25, and made a matter of public record. William Kane erected a store building, two stories high, forty by twenty-four feet, in which he carried on a general merchandise business. The house in which Doctor Belt later resided was the first residence of the village. Davis, Livingwood & Son put in operation an ox-tread gristmill, which later was removed to Aullville. The second store in the place was built by Wesley Cox, and there he carried a small stock of dry goods and groceries. Three years before the village was platted, the Christian denomination erected a church building, at a cost of seven hundred aollars. The Methodists also held an interest in it and worshiped therein. It was finally removed to Aullville. There were several business houses erected at Freedom, but with the building of the railroad through the township, the good start towards a lively town was thwarted and finally all became dilapidated and many of the buildings were removed to the nearby railroad station, Aullville. Doctor Wilborn was postmaster at one time, and later it was moved to the store of Mr. Kane. It is now numbered among the defunct villages of Lafayette county.

Passage source: Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910.

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 13 more 13 times.

Fires near this place

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Concordia between 1992 and 2018, burning about 55 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176683-05130-04172018-1730
26 March 1992Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concordia in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 1999FloodConcordia$25,000High water covered State Highway 23 in Concordia. Newspaper accounts indicate that gravel was washed from some streets in and near Concordia, and the blacktop was ripped off of part of another street.
March 2006HailConcordia$25,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindConcordia$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew a large tree onto the roof of a house in Concordia.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindConcordia$2,000The roof of a loafing shed was ripped from a barn. Also a 2x4 board pierced the wall of the garage.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Downed power lines and power outages near Smelser Road.
September 2023HailConcordia-Quarter sized hail reported at TA Travel Center.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Estimated 60 mph winds in Concordia. Tree limbs downed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindConcordia-Several tree branches were down in Concordia, along with some minor structural damage. Winds were estimated at 60 to 65 mph.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindConcordia-A metal roof was blown off a building and into a nearby field. A propane tank was knocked over.
June 2015Flash FloodConcordia-Highway 23, north of Concordia had water flowing over the road making it impassible.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindConcordia-A 5 foot in diameter tree was uprooted. Numerous one foot in diameter tree branches were broken off of trees. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2007Flash FloodConcordia-Highway 23, north and south of Concordia, had water over the road.
June 2005Flash FloodConcordia-Roads closed due to flooding on Highway 23, FF Highway and D Highway.
April 2001Flash FloodConcordia-Law enforcement reported flash flooding with many city roads under water.
October 1998HailConcordia-Hail covered the ground.
December 2017HailConcordia-no account filed
February 2011HailConcordia-no account filed
July 2008HailConcordia-no account filed
March 2006HailConcordia-no account filed
March 2006HailConcordia-no account filed
May 2004HailConcordia-no account filed
June 2004HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2003HailConcordia-no account filed
May 2001HailConcordia-no account filed
April 2001HailConcordia-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Concordia-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodConcordia-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
Ernestville4.8 miles22
Aullville6.3 miles15
Alma7.8 miles16
Corder8.8 miles15
Higginsville10.0 miles15
Simpson11.8 miles15
Fortyville (historical)12.8 miles16
Page City13.1 miles17

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 ConcordiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953335The 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 716186. 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.

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.