Latham, Missouri
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|subdivision_name2 = Moniteau
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|area_total_km2 = 1.00
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|population_density_km2 = 69.09
|population_density_sq_mi = 178.76
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|postal_code = 65050
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Latham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Moniteau County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 69.
History
Latham was laid out in 1880.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA333 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1917 | pages=333}} The community has the name of Judge Gardiner Latham, a first settler.{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_moniteau.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071155/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_moniteau.html | archivedate = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Moniteau County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate= November 10, 2016}} A post office called Latham has been in operation since 1892.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Moniteau | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=10 November 2016}}
Geography
Latham is in southwestern Moniteau County along State Highway E, {{convert|10|mi|0}} southwest of California, Missouri, the county seat. At Latham, there are two antique shops, a post office, a bank, an elementary school, a fire station, a church in-town and another just outside the village limits, and several homes.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Latham CDP has an area of {{convert|0.39|sqmi|2}}, of which {{convert|0.001|sqmi|3}}, or 0.26%, are water. The community sits on a small ridge which drains west and north to Smith Creek, a northeast-flowing tributary of North Moreau Creek and part of the Moreau River watershed leading to the Missouri River.
Demographics
{{US Census population
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}
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References
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{{Moniteau County, Missouri}}
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Category:Census-designated places in Moniteau County, Missouri
Category:Unincorporated communities in Moniteau County, Missouri
Category:Jefferson City metropolitan area
Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Category:Census-designated places in Missouri
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