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Gilliam, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Cambridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65330. The Survey maps it on the Slater quadrangle. 175 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Gilliam within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

Gilliam fell from 197 to 175 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
2010197
2020175-22 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

2,184 words on this township

History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Cambridge Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

As has been stated, the town of Cambridge was at one time a place of considerable importance, but the building of the Chicago & Alton railroad, or rather its location, away from the town, and the building of Slater and Gilliam have greatly damaged its prosperity. Houses have been moved to Slater, and business men have followed them.

Passage source: History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881.

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 Cambridge Township.

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Gilliam between 1993 and 2017, burning about 174 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 September 1999Smoking7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1993Natural12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 July 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 1999Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Gilliam: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - Ls-S+GStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gilliam Rock Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilliam in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2016: 2 flash flood, 1 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGilliam-A tree branch fell onto a power line.
June 2008Flash FloodGilliam-High water closed P Highway, just off of 240 Highway.
May 2006Flash FloodGilliam-Flooding reported on several roads due to heavy rains north of Gilliam.

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Cambridge3.4 miles15
Slater3.6 miles18
New Frankfort5.0 miles16
Orearville5.6 miles18
West Glasgow6.9 miles16
Saline City7.2 miles16
Norton7.4 miles19
Sharon8.2 miles16

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 GilliamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953623The 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 718453. 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.

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.