Guilford, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64457. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Guilford quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGuilford fell from 85 to 60 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 | 85 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -25 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1925 USGS Stanberry quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Stanberry quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Stanberry quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Guilford quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maryville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,408 words on this townshipPast and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
It seems quite probable that the earliest settlement in this township was made in 1840 and was effected by Thomas Gray, who took a claim in the southeast part of White Oak Grove, two miles north of the present town of Guilford.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
Next came Silas Groves, from Indiana, and located two miles north¬ west of Guilford, between the river and White Oak Grove. The farm was, in after years, owned by Hugh Todd. Then came Jesse Jones, who emigrated from Pennsylvania, settling a mile to the south of present Guilford. Thomas Blakely came from Cooper county, Missouri, locating near the others men¬ tioned. James Irwin was among the next to come into the township. He took a claim a half-mile southwest of Guilford. Silas Best settled three miles north, on the east side of White Oak Grove. John S. Aldridge emi¬ grated from Indiana and settled on the east side of the grove. Guilford Richards came from Virginia and took a claim on the south side of the Grove.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
The first store in the township was owned by Mr. Elliott and his faith¬ ful clerk, William Weatherman, carried the first mail bags that ever came into the settlement. Jesse Stingley settled one mile and a half southeast of present Guilford; he came from Indiana. In 1847 came C. Weatherman, who emigrated from North Carolina. In 1848 came W. J. Brittain from the same state, locating on section 14, township 62, range 34.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway 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 Washington Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Guilford in 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176703-00201-03232018-1238 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Guilford: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guilford in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guilford | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guilford | $200 | A 30 foot long horse trailer was blown over on its side. Numerous tree limbs were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guilford | - | Reports of power lines down and power outages near Conception Junction and east of Barnard. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guilford | - | Machine shed destroyed and damage to roof of the post office in Guilford. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Guilford | - | Law Enforcement reported several inches of water flowing over Highway M just west of Guilford. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Guilford | - | Water over roads. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guilford | - | Severe thunderstorms moved through the county with wind gusts up to 60 mph. Trees were knocked down south of Graham, partially blocking Route Y. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Guilford | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Guilford | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guilford | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Guilford | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monastery | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Barnard | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Conception | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Conception Junction | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pumpkin Center | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Clyde | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Arkoe | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bedison | 8.7 miles | 11 |
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 Guilford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q948176 | 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 718916. 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.







