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.
Population over time
2 figuresLake 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 327 | |
| 2020 | 277 | -50 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1885 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Odessa South quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Sni-A-Bar township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
15,129 words on this townshipHistory 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 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 June 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176450-05441-04072018-1427 |
| 5 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 2 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odessa | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Chapel Hill | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bates City | 6.8 miles | 19 | |
| Oakland (historical) | 7.0 miles | 19 | |
| Greenton | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Fortyville (historical) | 9.6 miles | 16 | |
| Mayview | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Wellington | 13.0 miles | 17 |
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 Lafayette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958432 | 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 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.









