Ava, Missouri Ava, Missouri Douglas County court home on the southeast corner of the Ava square Douglas County court home on the southeast corner of the Ava square Location of Ava, Missouri Location of Ava, Missouri Ava is the only incorporated town/city in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.
Ava is the governmental center of county of Douglas County. The town/city was established in 1871.
Ava is positioned in the southern portion of the Missouri Ozarks inside the southern escarpment of the Salem Plateau.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.30 square miles (8.55 km2), all of it land. The region was settled amid the 1830s and Douglas County was incorporated in 1857 with Vera Cruz as county seat.
The town was platted in 1871 and retitled Ava in 1881 although not incorporated until 1908. Militia Springs was the locale of an encampment of Union soldiers or Missouri Militia amid the American Civil War. Entrance to the Missouri Fox Trotter showground north of Ava, Missouri In 1910 the Kansas City, Ozark and Southern Railroad was extended from Mansfield south to Ava to service the burgeoning agricultural and lumbering industries of Douglas County.
The Missouri Fox Trotter association was organized in Ava in 1948 and the annual shows are held at the associations property just north of Ava. There were 1,494 housing units at an average density of 452.7 per square mile (174.8/km2).
There were 1,296 homeholds of which 28.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 38.1% were married couples living together, 15.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.9% were non-families.
22.8% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.2% were from 25 to 44; 22.6% were from 45 to 64; and 22.9% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,493 housing units at an average density of 480.9 per square mile (186.0/km ).
There were 1,350 homeholds out of which 27.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.0% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 43.4% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 23.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $22,331, and the median income for a family was $28,228.
April 2011 City News - City of Ava Missouri Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
Ava, Missouri, 7.5 minute Topographic Quad., USGS, 1982 How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named.
The State Historical Society of Missouri.
Douglas County Place Names, 1928-1945, The State Historical Society of Missouri Ohman, Missouri Courthouses, Douglas County, University of Missouri Extension Division Douglas County, State historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission Archived April 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Ava Historic maps of Ava in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Douglas County, Missouri, United States County seats in Missouri
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Cities in Douglas County, Missouri - County seats in Missouri - Cities in Missouri - 1871 establishments in Missouri
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