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La Due, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Davis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64735. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montrose quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

La Due within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

La Due fell from 28 to 27 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201028
202027-1 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of La Due between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,978 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning9
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined104 acresMissouri Department of ConservationPERSIMMON FIRE
19 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2018Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176901-04200-04072018-1954
7 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176902-04200-04072018-1954
7 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135958-04200-04052016-0530

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of La Due: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ss.FlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Due in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailLa Due-Emergency manager relayed photo of measured hail between 2 and 2.5 inches.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLa Due-Trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 mph.
October 2008HailLa Due-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Delmar4.6 miles17
Clinton6.5 miles18
Deepwater6.6 miles18
Montrose6.7 miles17
Livingston7.4 miles18
Piper7.6 miles15
Germantown7.7 miles15
New Piper7.9 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on La DueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2135251The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720712. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.