Laddonia, Missouri
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63352. The Survey maps it on the Laddonia quadrangle. 502 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLaddonia fell from 513 to 502 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 | 513 | |
| 2020 | 502 | -11 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1890 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1890 USGS Perry quadrangle1:125000
- 1942 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1973 USGS Laddonia quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,646 words on this townshipHistory of Audrain County, Missouri : Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Towns and Villages; Together with ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens .., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Prairie Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Abner sold to Luther Moss, who still resides on the place. Abner is now in Alabama. Luther is a native of Gallatin county, Kentucky, and came to Missouri in 1865. He has made several trips to Cali¬ fornia, and is now the proprietor of a butcher shop in the town of Laddonia.
Passage source: History of Audrain County, Missouri : Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Towns and Villages; Together with ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens .., published 1884.
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 Prairie Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Laddonia: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farber Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laddonia in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laddonia | $12,000 | Widespread wind damage between Laddonia, Rush Hill and Mexico. One tree was blown down onto Route KK just west of Highway 19. Another tree was blown down onto Route B at 6th Street in Rush Hill. A two foot diameter tree was blown over onto Central Street in Mexico. Also, numerous tree limbs, power lines and power poles were blown over. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laddonia | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and numerous tree limbs. Also, just east of Laddonia, the winds overturned several empty railroad cars. The railroad cars blocked the track's intersections with County Road 509 and Locust Street. |
| April 2010 | Flash Flood | Laddonia | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway K east of Laddonia and portions of Highway 19. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laddonia | - | Several power lines and small trees were blown down. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Laddonia | - | Storm spotters reported nickel size hail. |
| June 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Laddonia | - | A severe storm with downburst winds, hail and several tornadoes moved through Audrain County. The last of four tornadoes in Audrain County touched down 1 mile northeast of Laddonia, in an open field. As it traveled to the northeast it moved into the southwest portions of Farber. It blew down several large trees and numerous tree limbs in town. One tree severely damaged the roof of a home in Farber. The tornado lifted and dissipated about six tenths of a mile northeast of Farber, near U.S. Route 54. No injuries were reported. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laddonia | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laddonia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bassinger Corner | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Farber | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Rush Hill | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Rices Corner | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Scotts Corner | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Worcester | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Culiver | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Hickory Creek (historical) | 9.2 miles | 16 |
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 Laddonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953077 | 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 720731. 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.
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.






