Vandalia, 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 1 record

• Lincoln Schoollisted 1996

Vandalia fell from 3,899 to 3,553 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.

• 1890 USGS Louisiana quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1973 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Audrain County, Missouri : Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Towns and Villages; Together with ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens .., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Cuivre 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 7 workings within 5 miles of Vandalia: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Audrain County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vandalia in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 Audrain 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 728133. 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.