Bagnell, MO

Bagnell is a town in Miller County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 43 residents. Bagnell was platted in 1882, when the railroad was extended through the area. The town was named after William Bagnell of St. Louis County, who operated a tie business along the Osage River. The short version is that Bagnell carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Bagnell: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Bagnell is in western Miller County, on the north side of Little Gravois Creek where it enters the Osage River, which forms the eastern border of the town. Bagnell is bordered to the southwest by Lake Ozark.