Chapel Hill, MissouriChapel Hill is an unincorporated community in southwest Lafayette County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route Z approximately six miles south of Bates City.HistoryA post office called Chapel Hill was established in 1850, and remained in operation until 1914. The community took its name from the local Chapel Hill College; the school was destroyed during the Civil War in the 1860s.