Richmond, Missouri

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• Ray County

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 6 records

• Dougherty Auditoriumlisted 1982
• New Hope Primitive Baptist Churchlisted 1980
• Ray County Courthouselisted 1979
• Ray County Poor Farmlisted 1979
• Watkins Houselisted 1983
• Isiah Mansur Farmstead Historic Districtlisted 1998

Richmond grew from 5,797 to 6,013 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
• 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Richmond township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Richmond Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Richmond: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Ray County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmond in 62 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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 Ray 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 725280. 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.

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.