unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Moniteau County, Missouri
Moniteau County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 15,473. Its county seat is California. The county was organized February 14, 1845, and named for the Moniteau Creek ...
, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 69.
History
Latham was laid out in 1880. The community has the name of Judge Gardiner Latham, a first settler. A post office called Latham has been in operation since 1892.
Geography
Latham is in southwestern Moniteau County along State Highway E, southwest of
California, Missouri
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, the
county seat
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. 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
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, the Latham CDP has an area of , of which , 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
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