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Leadwood, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63653. It stands on Eaton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Flat River quadrangle. 1,178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Leadwood within St. Francois County

Population over time

2 figures

Leadwood fell from 1,282 to 1,178 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
20101,282
20201,178-104 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Leadwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261411-09432-09092020-1925
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261410-09432-09092020-2144
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178502-09401-04052019-1131
27 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136091-11043-04232016-1338
12 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 83 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 83 workings within 5 miles of Leadwood: 75 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Bonne TerreLead, Copper, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1821
Bonne Terre MillDolomiteProducer
Bonne Terre MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1864, 1868
Bonne Terre Quarry and MillMagnesiteProducer
Flat River Sub-DistrictLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1742
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Clay KaolinKaolinPast Producer
Unknown - Lead - ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Desloge MinesLead, CopperProducer1801

Every working recorded in St. Francois County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leadwood in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLeadwood-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines at the intersection of Highway 8 and Harmon Road. Also, several large tree limbs were blown down on the southwest side of Park Hills.
August 2015Flash FloodLeadwood-Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including St. Joe Drive near Lewis Street in Park Hills. A water rescue had to be performed on Woodlawn Drive in Leadington due to a vehicle in flood waters.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Leadwood-An area of large trees were uprooted or damaged after a tornado touched down briefly.
April 2007HailLeadwood-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLeadwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Francois 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
Huntington0.4 miles21
Daytown0.8 miles21
Frankclay1.2 miles21
Mitchell1.6 miles21
Gumbo1.7 miles21
Wortham1.8 miles21
Davis3.1 miles21
Fairview Acres3.2 miles21

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 LeadwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953382The 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 756287. 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.