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Lake Lafayette, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Sni-A-Bar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64076. It lies near Wagon Knob. The Survey maps it on the Odessa South quadrangle. 277 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Lake Lafayette within Lafayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Lafayette fell from 327 to 277 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
2010327
2020277-50 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 Sni-A-Bar township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881 - Sni-A-Bar Township

Deeds Of Violence

The following is given by Mr. Eli Adams: In the spring of 1841, Mrs. Mary Scott and her son, King B. Scott, were murdered in this township. Mrs. Scott's body was found in the fire in the house. In the spring of 1843, two years afterward, the body of King B. Scott was found in a branch of the Sni. Suspicion rested upon John C.

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In the county-history sources

15,129 words on this township

History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881; Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township - 15,129 words.

Fires near this place

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lake Lafayette between 2003 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176450-05441-04072018-1427
5 April 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 April 2005Recreation and ceremony10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 March 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 March 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lake Lafayette: 3 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
Chapel Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette 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
Odessa3.8 miles18
Chapel Hill5.0 miles13
Bates City6.8 miles19
Oakland (historical)7.0 miles19
Greenton7.1 miles17
Fortyville (historical)9.6 miles16
Mayview10.5 miles16
Wellington13.0 miles17

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 Lake LafayetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958432The 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 1669612. 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.