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Halltown, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ozark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65664. The Survey maps it on the Halltown quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Halltown within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Halltown fell from 173 to 104 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
2010173
2020104-69 (-40%)

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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Halltown between 1996 and 2014, burning about 148 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 February 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 February 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Halltown: 11 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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 - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams MineCopperPast Producer
Lawrenceburg MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Pickerel Creek DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Rose and Son QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sifferman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halltown in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 1993Thunderstorm WindHalltown$50,000Seven large barns were damaged.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHalltown$5,000Several trees and large limbs were reported down. Some limbs were on a house but no damage was noted. A limb did cause minor damage to a barn.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHalltown$4,000A tree was reported down on a roof causing minor damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHalltown$1,000Large tree branches were down in the Halltown area.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindHalltown$500Numerous trees and power lines were downed from thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHalltown-Multiple tree limbs of up to 4 diameter were reported down off of Highway 266. The time was estimated from radar.
May 2017HailHalltown-Ping pong size hail was reported near Highway N and I-44 in the Halltown area.
April 2015HailHalltown-Nickel sized hail covered the ground.
May 2013Heavy RainHalltown-Rainfall of 4.20 inches fell in several hours.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHalltown-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees over rural sections of northeast Lawrence County.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHalltown-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees across rural sections of eastern Lawrence County.
May 2017HailHalltown-no account filed
June 2014HailHalltown-no account filed
October 2012HailHalltown-no account filed
October 2011HailHalltown-no account filed
April 2006HailHalltown-no account filed
April 2005HailHalltown-no account filed
August 2005HailHalltown-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHalltown-no account filed
May 2003HailHalltown-no account filed
May 2003HailHalltown-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHalltown-no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindHalltown-no account filed
May 2002HailHalltown-no account filed
May 2002Flash FloodHalltown-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHalltown-no account filed
October 2001HailHalltown-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindHalltown-no account filed
June 1996HailHalltown-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodHalltown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Paris Springs2.9 miles18
Lawrenceburg4.0 miles18
Spencer4.1 miles18
Nickelville5.1 miles18
Chesapeake6.1 miles19
Stinson7.7 miles17
Call8.1 miles17
McKinley9.1 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 HalltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2130723The 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 758433. 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.