Laclede, Missouri
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64651. The Survey maps it on the Laclede quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.
On record in Laclede
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood HomeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1969
Locust Creek Covered Bridgelisted 1970- Plum Grove Schoollisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresLaclede fell from 345 to 305 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 345 | |
| 2020 | 305 | -40 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Laclede quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jefferson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Crimes And Casualties
As early as 1843 a very unfortunate accident happened near Myle's railb on Locust Creek. Two boys, one white, and bound to Dr. Dry den, the other a colored boy, a slave owned by the Doctor, went in swimming and were both drowned. They were not far from eighteen years of age. How it'happened is not known, unless taken with cramps.
In the county-history sources
57,623 words on this townshipThe History of Linn County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The northern part of this township is a high, rolling prairie, whose undulating surface gives it a fine drainage. Its timber is found along the banks of the streams and it is mostly white and burr oak, hickory, scrub oak, elm, etc. The southern section of the township is looked upon as rather better land, the soil being deeper than on the north side. Its timber is about the same in quantity. Tobacco yields well in the southern part, but corn, oats, and in fact all kinds of grain and vegetables well repay the husbandman's labor. The soil of the prairies is from eighteen inches to three i'eet in depth, and in some places hard-pan is found, but in the bottom-lands along the streams, the soil is literally without bottom, having for ages been formed of vegetable matter, rich in all that goes to make it fertile and inexhaustible. Limestone is not found but plenty of sandstone quarries of excellent building stone can be seen cropping out along the banks of Lo- cnst Creek, and there is a bountiful supply of coal which underlies nearly the entire southern portion of the township. There is a twenty-six-inch vein of coal now being worked three miles south of Laclede, only forty feet below the surface, and another shaft is being sunk one and one-half miles from the above named city, in which they expect to strike a much thicker vein at the depth of sixty feet. There is plenty of coal for the use of generations to come within the limits of this township. The question of cheap fuel is not one which will rise to trouble the people of Linn county let alone the citizens of Jeflerson township, and will prove a valuable adjunct to her future wealth and prosperity. Besides the immense coal fields of Jefferson township, fine brick and potter's clay is found, and as the county advances in wealth, brick will verv soon usurp the place of wood, and this cla}' is of a quantity that would build every residence in the county of brick.
Passage source: The History of Linn County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, published 1882.
Thert'. are nine school districts in the townshi]); all have good frame buildings, with such appliances as is necessary for a thorough English education preparatory to a more extended course, all the leading towns in the county having graded schools, and Laclede is no exception. These schools are all in a ver}' Nourishing condition, are ke]it up six months in the year, and are well patronized. These school-lnnises are all frame buildings costing from $1,000 down to $500, and they are all paid for. For a more full and complete histor}' of the schools of Linn county, with an account of the township fund, see the Chapter upon schools in the general county history. It explains fully the situation of all the schools in the county, and the school fnnds. State, county, and townshiji.
Passage source: The History of Linn County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, published 1882.
As the township grew in ])opulation it was seen that two voting precincts would be needed, and as the towns of Laclede and JBrookfield were both in Jefferson township, there was a desire to have the township subdivided, making both of the towns a voting precinct. Other'townships were asking that this should be done, and so a petition was got up and presented to the coifnty court for action.
Passage source: The History of Linn County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Jefferson Township - it names this place 78 more 78 times.
Fires near this place
30 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Laclede between 1992 and 2019, burning about 501 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 145276-05836-06152016-1645 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178028-05827-04232018-0445 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176721-05827-04232018-0320 |
| 22 April 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178654-00000-04102019-0900 |
| 9 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 119870-05836-03092015-1537 |
| 7 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laclede in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laclede | $5,000 | Power lines down and roof damage reported in Laclede. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laclede | - | Downed power lines near Glade Road. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laclede | - | Downed power lines near Glade Road. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laclede | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, with a large tree reported down in a yard. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laclede | - | Numerous 4-inch diameter tree limbs and a dead tree were downed. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Laclede | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Laclede | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Laclede | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forker | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Brookfield | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Linneus | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Meadville | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Catharine | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fountain Grove | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Lowell | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| Grantsville | 11.2 miles | 11 |
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 Laclede | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965722 | The 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 720726. 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.
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.







