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Leslie, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63056. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Leslie within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Leslie fell from 171 to 136 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
2010171
2020136-35 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

67 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Leslie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. None 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 July 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 July 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Leslie: 51 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jess Laubinger S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grabenthine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Kleins Ore BankIronPast Producer
Leslie MineIronPast Producer
Pletz MineIronPast Producer
Temme PitIronPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Adams PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLeslie$400The roof of the New Haven Police Department and radio tower suffered extensive damage. Large trees were also blown down and uprooted in the Leslie and Gerald areas.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLeslie-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and tree limbs across Franklin County. North of Leslie, a large tree was blown down across Route C. In St. Clair, a road sign was blown down along I-44 and a large tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 30 and Route PP.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLeslie-Several trees and power lines were blown down on Highway C north of Highway ZZ.
April 2026HailLeslie-no account filed
September 2012HailLeslie-no account filed
April 2011HailLeslie-no account filed
April 2006HailLeslie-no account filed
May 2003HailLeslie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Greenstreet1.7 miles19
Beaufort2.3 miles19
Noser Mill2.7 miles19
Port Hudson2.7 miles21
Peters Ford3.3 miles20
Jaegers Shop4.7 miles21
Schmitt Ford4.7 miles20
Laubinger Ford5.3 miles20

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 LeslieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q637684The 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 720921. 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.