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.
Population over time
2 figuresHalltown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 173 | |
| 2020 | 104 | -69 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1888 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000
- 1919 USGS Halltown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Halltown quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 February 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 February 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 February 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Williams Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Lawrenceburg Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Pickerel Creek Diggings | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Rose and Son Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sifferman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
30 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | $50,000 | Seven large barns were damaged. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | $5,000 | Several 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | $4,000 | A tree was reported down on a roof causing minor damage. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | $1,000 | Large tree branches were down in the Halltown area. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | $500 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed from thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | Multiple tree limbs of up to 4 diameter were reported down off of Highway 266. The time was estimated from radar. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Halltown | - | Ping pong size hail was reported near Highway N and I-44 in the Halltown area. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Halltown | - | Nickel sized hail covered the ground. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Halltown | - | Rainfall of 4.20 inches fell in several hours. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees over rural sections of northeast Lawrence County. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees across rural sections of eastern Lawrence County. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| October 2012 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Halltown | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Halltown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Springs | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Lawrenceburg | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Spencer | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Nickelville | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Chesapeake | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Stinson | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Call | 8.1 miles | 17 | |
| McKinley | 9.1 miles | 19 |
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 Halltown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2130723 | 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 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.







