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.
Population over time
2 figuresLuray 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 99 | |
| 2020 | 73 | -26 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1903 USGS Kahoka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Wyaconda quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177060-02309-04122018-1631 |
| 8 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177063-02309-03082018-1852 |
| 31 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177571-09917-03312018-1250 |
| 25 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177061-02309-03252018-1812 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casey Quarry | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $15,000 | Windows blown out of a house with numerous 8 inch limbs down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $7,000 | Numerous 6 inch trees down. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Luray | $5,000 | Heavy 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Luray | $5,000 | Heavy 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $5,000 | A weather spotter reported downed power poles and lines. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Luray | $500 | Rated high F0 |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Several tree branches were blown down, which damaged power lines. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (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 2009 | Hail | Luray | - | A trained spotter reported dime to penny size hail that covered the ground about 6 miles northwest of Luray. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Luray | - | A trained spotter measured dime to penny size hail that covered the ground 6 miles north of Luray. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Luray | - | Dime to nickel-sized hail fell for about 10 minutes in Luray, MO between 1:00 and 1:10 pm June 15. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Luray | - | Penny-sized hail fell in Luray, MO at 1:04 pm June 15. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Luray | - | One inch hail reported by cooperative observer. |
| August 2001 | Heavy Rain | Luray | - | A trained spotter repored 2.30 inches of rain |
| October 2024 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Luray | - | 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.
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 Luray | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2480840 | 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 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.






