BlockLongtown, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63775. It lies near Bedwell Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Perryville East quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLongtown fell from 102 to 90 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 | 102 | |
| 2020 | 90 | -12 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1923 USGS Perryville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1924 USGS Perryville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Perryville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Longtown: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibbar Bros Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ponder Diggings | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Ponder Shaft | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Shaft #2 | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Shaft #3 | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Lead | Lead | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longtown in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longtown | $25,000 | Winds tore part of the roof from a house located on U.S. Highway 61. Around 10,000 dollars damage occurred to the house. An antenna was wrapped around an air conditioning unit. Numerous trees were blown down in the area. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Longtown | $500 | The county sheriff reported 12-inch diameter tree limbs broke off from high wind. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Longtown | - | Golf ball size hail fell in Longtown. |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Longtown | - | Two spotters observed the funnel cloud near Highway 61. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Longtown | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Longtown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvary Church | 0.1 miles | 18 | |
| Eureka | 2.0 miles | 26 | |
| Friedenberg | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Apple Creek | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Uniontown | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| Farrar | 5.0 miles | 26 | |
| Shakertowne | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Biehle | 5.7 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 Longtown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958819 | 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 1699793. 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.
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.