Ludlow, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64656. The Survey maps it on the Utica West quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLudlow fell from 137 to 111 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 | 137 | |
| 2020 | 111 | -26 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1924 USGS Dawn quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Utica quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Utica West quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
549 words on this townshipPast and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
W. C. Hunt and Byrd Jones, deacons. The Christian church, of Ludlow, has no regular pastor. The deacons are Wiley Miller, W. F. Holchett and George Lenhart. The Bethany Baptist church, the Union Baptist church and the Bethel M. E. church. South, all in Monroe township, have no regular pastors.
Passage source: Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ludlow between 1997 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 2002 | Smoking | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Smoking | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.8 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190340-05974-03082020-2050 |
| 8 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 140 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
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 Ludlow: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Monroe Township Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludlow in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flood | Ludlow | - | Route DD closed in both directions near Ludlow. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Ludlow | - | State Route D was closed due to flooding along Shoal Creek. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Ludlow | - | State Route DD was closed due to flooding from nearby creeks. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Ludlow | - | Route D was closed near Shoal Creek due to flooding. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Ludlow | - | State Routes DD and C were reported closed, due to flooding. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Ludlow | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Mooresville | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Utica | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Blue Mound | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Cleary | 10.9 miles | 13 | |
| Sampsel | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Cavendish | 11.5 miles | 15 | |
| Corner Campbell School | 12.1 miles | 15 |
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 Ludlow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954724 | 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 721667. 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.







