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Galt, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64641. The Survey maps it on the Galt quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Galt within Grundy County

Population over time

2 figures

Galt fell from 253 to 168 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
2010253
2020168-85 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

1,762 words on this township

The History of Grundy County, Missouri : an Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. It Contains a Condensed History of the State of Missouri and Its Chief Cities ... ; Its Pioneer Record, War History, Resources, Biographical Sketches, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers settled in 1s3h, named in 1845, the old pioneers, marria(/es, birtha and deaths, ministers and doctors.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 1,762 words.

Storms near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galt in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGalt-Estimated 60 mph wind gusts just north of Galt.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGalt-A light pole was snapped in Galt.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGalt-A large maple tree was down in Galt.
May 2009Flash FloodGalt-State Route J was closed due to flooding.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGalt-Large tree limbs down.
August 2004Flash FloodGalt-Water covering road at 100th Street and State Route J.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGalt-Several large trees were downed.
May 2011HailGalt-no account filed
April 2011HailGalt-no account filed
March 2011HailGalt-no account filed
May 2007HailGalt-no account filed
July 2007HailGalt-no account filed
April 2002HailGalt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grundy 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
Lindley3.4 miles10
Dunlap5.3 miles10
Laredo7.8 miles10
Wyandotte8.4 miles9
Alpha10.1 miles14
Tindall11.9 miles9
Trenton12.6 miles9
Spickard13.6 miles9

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 GaltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958186The 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 730102. 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.

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.