BlockLeonard, Missouri
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63451. It stands on Hilton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leonard quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLeonard fell from 61 to 57 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 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 57 | -4 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Leonard quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonard in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Leonard | $105,000 | A brief EF-1 tornado touched down just east of Leonard and moved northeast. The tornado caused damage to farm structures, homes, and trees along its short track before dissipating just west of Highway BB. |
| August 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Leonard | $90,000 | A brief EF-1 tornado struck a farm just northeast of Leonard, MO on Shelby 129. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonard | - | Thunderstorm winds downed 4 inch branches between Leonard and Highway J just east of Highway W. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonard | - | A large tree was blown down across Highway H, just south of Leonard. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Leonard | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail in Leonard. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Leonard | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Leonard | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Box | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Epworth | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Kirby | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lakeland | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Hagers Grove | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kellerville | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Hebron | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bethel | 8.3 miles | 9 |
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 Leonard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2518936 | 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 735688. 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.
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.