Lexington, Missouri

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 12 of 25 shown

• Cumberland Presbyterian Churchlisted 1978
• Theodore Gosewisch Houselisted 1997
• Highland Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Lafayette County Courthouselisted 1970
• Old Neighborhoods Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Waddell Houselisted 1979
• Wentworth Military Academylisted 1980
• Anderson House and Lexington Battlefieldlisted 1969
• Minatree Catron Houselisted 1997
• John E. Cheatham Houselisted 1993
• Commercial Community Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Forest Grove Cemeterylisted 2022

Every listing in Lafayette County

Lexington fell from 4,726 to 4,652 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.

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.

• 1889 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1949 USGS Lexington West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Lexington West quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000

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 names this settlement in its chapter on Lexington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lexington between 2011 and 2014, burning about 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Myrick

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lexington: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720950. 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.