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History · Leisure Lake

50% of Leisure Lake’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Leisure Lake’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Leisure Lake are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Leisure Lake’s homes were built before 1941.
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The story so far

Leisure Lake, in brief

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Leisure Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grundy County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 166. It is located in western Grundy County and consists of a residential community set round a reservoir named Leisure Lake. Missouri Route 146 forms the eastern and northern edge of the CDP and leads southeast 8 miles (13 km) to Trenton, the Grundy County seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Leisure Lake CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km2), of which 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 5.10%, is water.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 160 to 166 (+4%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Famous people close to Leisure Lake

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George OveyActor · b. 1870
Leith StevensAmerican music composer and conductor · b. 1909
Enoch Herbert CrowderAmerican diplomat · b. 1859
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Yank LawsonAmerican musician · b. 1911
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Imogene LynnAmerican jazz and pop singer · b. 1922
Duck DowellAmerican basketball and football player and coa… · b. 1912
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Madison Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTaylor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →