The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBig Lake is a village in western Holt County, Missouri, United States. The population was 65 at the 2020 census. The village is located on the 646-acre (2.61 km2) Big Lake, which is the largest oxbow lake in Missouri. It is also adjacent to Big Lake State Park, which has the largest marsh in a state park in the state of Missouri.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 159 to 65 (-59%). Half of its homes were built before 2004.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Big Lake yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Big Lake’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Big Lake’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Big Lake, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Big Lake is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Big Lake has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Site No. RH00-062 in Iowa, 4.5 miles away.
Big Lake and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.