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.
Population over time
2 figuresGalt 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 253 | |
| 2020 | 168 | -85 (-34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1946 USGS Galt quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Galt quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Galt quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,762 words on this townshipThe 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 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galt | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gusts just north of Galt. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galt | - | A light pole was snapped in Galt. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galt | - | A large maple tree was down in Galt. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Galt | - | State Route J was closed due to flooding. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galt | - | Large tree limbs down. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Galt | - | Water covering road at 100th Street and State Route J. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galt | - | Several large trees were downed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Galt | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Galt | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Galt | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Galt | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Galt | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Galt | - | 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.
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 Galt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958186 | 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 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.






