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Latour, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Rose Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64747. It stands on Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kingsville quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Latour within Johnson County

Population over time

2 figures

Latour grew from 62 to 65 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
201062
202065+3 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

8,644 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rose Hill Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rose Hill Township - 8,644 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Latour between 2003 and 2017, burning about 136 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1

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
3 April 2006Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation120273-05161-03102015-1447
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134493-05161-03012016-0505
7 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134097-05161-02072016-2013
17 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 February 2003Recreation and ceremony15 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation131191-05161-11122015-1606

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Latour: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Garden City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latour in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLatour$25,000Damage reported to several buildings in town from thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2003Tornado (F2)Latour$1,000This is the Cass county tornado which entered Johnson county in open country around Latour. Reported by a trained spotter. tornado intermittently touched down for the next 18 miles in mainly open country.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLatour$750Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. A powerline was snapped off by a tree branch.
July 2017Flash FloodLatour-Missouri Route 2 was closed in both directions due to flash flooding.
July 2004Flash FloodLatour-Intersection of 2 Highway and ZZ Highway under 8 inches of flowing water.
July 2004Flash FloodLatour-Rural roads under water adjacent to Big Creek.
May 2002Flash FloodLatour-Water over B highway at Latour.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindLatour-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines near Latour. One of the power lines fell on top of trailer.
August 2018HailLatour-no account filed
March 2006HailLatour-no account filed
May 2004HailLatour-no account filed
May 2003HailLatour-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Rose Hill1.8 miles14
Fenwick2.4 miles14
Medford5.2 miles14
Quick City5.4 miles13
Kingsville7.7 miles14
Holden8.0 miles18
Denton9.3 miles18
Magnolia10.0 miles18

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 LatourAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2423936The 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 729762. 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.