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Hallsville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rocky Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65255. The Survey maps it on the Hallsville quadrangle. 1,614 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Hallsville within Boone County

On record in Hallsville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hallsville grew from 1,491 to 1,614 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
20101,491
20201,614+123 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Rocky Fork township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882 - Rocky Fork Township

History Op Boone Cottntt Miscellaneous

About twenty years since Mr. Wm. Watts was accidently shot and killed. The incident happened in the eastern part of this township. He and another man named Watkins were herding cattle, and while the two were carelessly handling a gun it was accidentally discharged and Watts was killed.

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In the county-history sources

20,830 words on this township

History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Rocky Fork Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

James Turner came from Kentucky in 1817, and located on a farm near Hallsville. He brought up a large family. His sons were Jesse, Tom and Enoch. Thomas Turner was the father of Mordecai, who lives east of Hallsville.

Passage source: History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882.

Isaac Davis came from Christian county, Kentucky, to this part of Missouri in 1818, and settled two miles east of Hallsville. His sons were James, Henry, Isaac, Benjamin, John and Joseph. One of Isaac's sons, Joseph, now lives on the old Davis homestead.

Passage source: History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882.

Other early settlers were J. D. Bratton, Dr. Points, Allen Rouse, Alfred Rouse, Mr. Carter, Wni. Thornton, Roily and Calvin Asbury and Abraham Waldou. Barney Dickerson was here as early as 1817. He lived on a farm east of Hallsville, He is still living, but is old

Passage source: History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882.

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 Rocky Fork Township - it names this place 14 more 14 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hallsville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallsville in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 24 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
June 2018LightningHallsville$50,000Two structures in town were struck by lightning. Both structures sustained damage from fires caused by the lightning strikes. No injuries were reported.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHallsville$3,000A large section of roof was blown off of a storage building in Hallsville. The debris was deposited about 100 feet away.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree. The tree blocked the roadway at Highway 124 and Barnes School Road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a moving vehicle on Route B near Highway OO n Hallsville. Also in Hallsville, large tree branches snapped from a tree and a tree fell on a house, trapping occupants inside. No one was injured. Power was reportedly out for all of Hallsville. In Columbia, medium to large tree limbs were snapped and there were pockets of power outages in the City Utility District.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Several power poles were blown down on Highway 124 between Hallsville and Centralia.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Several trees were blown down around town.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Hallsville.
July 2008Flash FloodHallsville-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads in the Hallsville area were flooded.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Several trees were blown down onto Hwy Z about half a mile south of the intersection of Hwy Z and Hwy OO.
May 2005HailHallsville-Emergency management officials reported hail up to baseball size in Hallsville. Some roofs and automobiles were damaged.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some large tree branches and power lines.
May 2003Funnel CloudHallsville-A University of Missouri Storm Chaser reported a funnel cloud west of Hallsville.
May 2003HailHallsville-The County Sheriff Department reported 1 inch hail.
June 2002HailHallsville-The County Sheriff Department reported 3/4 inch hail.
February 2000HailHallsville-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindHallsville-Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage from Hallsville east along Old Highway 124 to Highway Z. About 6 homes suffered minor roof damage. Several outbuildings were destroyed, some farm equipment damaged, and a couple cars were also damaged. Trees and powerlines were also downed.
June 2000HailHallsville-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindHallsville-A few trees and power lines were downed near Hallsville.
June 1995HailHallsville-The Boone County Emergency Operations Center reported golf ball-size hail along the Boone-Randolph County line and in the Hallsville area. Hail reached two inches in diameter in Sturgeon, but most stones were smaller. Wind gusts to 60 mph were also reported north of Ashland with a roof damaged and trees down across northeast parts of the county.
May 1995HailHallsville-Reported by the Boone County Emergency Operations Center.
June 2020HailHallsville-no account filed
September 2014HailHallsville-no account filed
April 2012HailHallsville-no account filed
May 2011HailHallsville-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHallsville-no account filed
May 2011HailHallsville-no account filed
March 2011HailHallsville-no account filed
June 2011HailHallsville-no account filed
June 2009HailHallsville-no account filed
March 2006HailHallsville-no account filed
March 2006HailHallsville-no account filed
March 2006HailHallsville-no account filed
June 2006HailHallsville-no account filed
July 2006HailHallsville-no account filed
May 2003HailHallsville-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHallsville-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHallsville-no account filed
January 1999HailHallsville-no account filed
January 1999HailHallsville-no account filed
May 1996HailHallsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Lebanon (historical)3.3 miles18
Points (historical)3.6 miles18
Middleton4.3 miles19
Browns5.1 miles19
Murry5.6 miles18
Petersburg (historical)5.7 miles19
Stephens6.5 miles19
Riggs7.6 miles19

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 HallsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968270The 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 750202. 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.

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.