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Luray, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wyaconda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63453. It stands on Old Channel North Wyaconda River. The Survey maps it on the Wyaconda quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Luray within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Luray fell from 99 to 73 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
201099
202073-26 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Luray in 2018, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
12 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177060-02309-04122018-1631
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177063-02309-03082018-1852
31 March 2018Debris and open burning6.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177571-09917-03312018-1250
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177061-02309-03252018-1812

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Luray: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Casey QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luray in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLuray$15,000Windows blown out of a house with numerous 8 inch limbs down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLuray$7,000Numerous 6 inch trees down.
June 2011Flash FloodLuray$5,000Heavy rains caused some flash flooding about 6 miles west of Kahoka, MO during the morning of June 20. A woman drove into a flooded gravel road and needed to be rescued from the flood waters along with her daughter.
June 2010Flash FloodLuray$5,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of several roads across Clark County during the morning of June 22. Route K was closed due to flooding in the Luray area. In the Alexandria area there was significant flooding of area roads, including US Highway 61, which was closed due to flash flooding.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLuray$5,000A weather spotter reported downed power poles and lines.
March 2006Tornado (F0)Luray$500Rated high F0
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLuray-Several tree branches were blown down, which damaged power lines.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Luray-A supercell produced an EF1 tornado that touched down 2 miles east of Luray and moved southeast to about 4 miles southeast of Luray, damaging grain bins, barns and other outbuildings. A house at the beginning of the tornado's path was extensively damaged and was shifted off its foundation. Another house at the end of the path had the siding and roof damaged. The tornado moved southeast for about 2 miles and was on the ground for an estimated 5 minutes.
March 2009HailLuray-A trained spotter reported dime to penny size hail that covered the ground about 6 miles northwest of Luray.
March 2009HailLuray-A trained spotter measured dime to penny size hail that covered the ground 6 miles north of Luray.
June 2008HailLuray-Dime to nickel-sized hail fell for about 10 minutes in Luray, MO between 1:00 and 1:10 pm June 15.
June 2008HailLuray-Penny-sized hail fell in Luray, MO at 1:04 pm June 15.
April 2001HailLuray-One inch hail reported by cooperative observer.
August 2001Heavy RainLuray-A trained spotter repored 2.30 inches of rain
October 2024HailLuray-no account filed
September 2015HailLuray-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLuray-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLuray-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Luray-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Eldorado0.4 miles15
Ashton4.0 miles16
Wyaconda5.0 miles15
Medill5.8 miles16
Chambersburg6.6 miles12
Fairmont8.5 miles16
Kahoka8.9 miles17
Union9.2 miles16

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 LurayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2480840The 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 735707. 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.