Avilla is a rural village in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 103 at the 2020 census. It is allowance of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. Avilla is the fourth-oldest agreement in Jasper County today, founded in 1856. It was platted and laid out for public use July 23, 1858, by Andrew L. Love and David S. Holman.

Avilla is located at 37°11′38″N 94°7′44″W / 37.19389°N 94.12889°W / 37.19389; -94.12889 (37.193821, −94.128991), ten miles east of Carthage, Missouri, on MO Route 96 (formerly Historic U.S. Route 66) and four miles west of the Lawrence County line. The village is amongst pasture and farmland, small forested areas and branching spring-fed streams. White Oak Creek is the nearest to the south and east, and Dry Fork & Deer Creek to the north. Spring River runs taking into consideration about three miles to the south which is eventually fed by these headwater streams.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total Place of 0.20 square miles (0.52 km), all land.

Pioneers who came to this region in the 1830s and 1840s saw a “beautiful prairie land, interspersed like timbered belts along winding streams”. Settlement of the grasslands presented more challenges than further types of terrain, and for this excuse northeastern Jasper County developed more slowly than the settle of the county. Split-log homes were built close wooded locations and stone and sod were plus used in in the future constructions. Although families were many miles apart, they yet called each further neighbor. Some of the very old settlers close present-day Avilla were John K. Gibson in 1831 (just across the Lawrence County line), James Blackwell in 1835 and John Fishburn upon White Oak Creek in 1836. Nelson Knight was the first settler on the prairie north of Avilla, building a cabin and farm in 1837, and Jasper County itself was acknowledged in 1841. Thomas Buck came whatever the mannerism from Indiana in a wagon drawn by a team of horses in the 1840s and built a farm just east of the far along town site. The first schoolhouse in the Avilla Place was a one-room, dirt-floor log cabin as well as founded in the 1840s, called White Oak School, located more or less 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast close White Oak Creek. Arriving when his associates in 1853, Dr. Jaquillian M. Stemmons was the first physician to practice medicine in the Avilla area, doing correspondingly from his 400 acres (1.6 km²) farm. The town of Avilla was founded in 1856 and platted and laid out for public use July 23, 1858, by Andrew L. Love and David S. Holman. Mr. Love was the first Justice of the Peace, and Mr. Holman was the first merchant and postmaster, establishing the say office in 1860. A Dr Young later came just since the Civil War and usual a medical office within the town limits.