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.
Population over time
2 figuresLatour 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 62 | |
| 2020 | 65 | +3 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1887 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kingsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
8,644 words on this townshipThe 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 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120273-05161-03102015-1447 |
| 1 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 134493-05161-03012016-0505 |
| 7 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 134097-05161-02072016-2013 |
| 17 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 February 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 131191-05161-11122015-1606 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latour | $25,000 | Damage reported to several buildings in town from thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F2) | Latour | $1,000 | This 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latour | $750 | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. A powerline was snapped off by a tree branch. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Latour | - | Missouri Route 2 was closed in both directions due to flash flooding. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Latour | - | Intersection of 2 Highway and ZZ Highway under 8 inches of flowing water. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Latour | - | Rural roads under water adjacent to Big Creek. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Latour | - | Water over B highway at Latour. |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latour | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines near Latour. One of the power lines fell on top of trailer. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Latour | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Latour | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Latour | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Latour | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Hill | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Fenwick | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Medford | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Quick City | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsville | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Holden | 8.0 miles | 18 | |
| Denton | 9.3 miles | 18 | |
| Magnolia | 10.0 miles | 18 |
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 Latour | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2423936 | 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 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.








