Latham, MO

Latham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Moniteau County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 69 residents. Latham was laid out in 1880. The community has the name of Judge Gardiner Latham, a first settler. A newcomer can read Latham through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Latham comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Latham is in southwestern Moniteau County along State Highway E, 10 miles 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.