Editing La Tour, Missouri (section)

==History==
La Tour was [[plat]]ted in 1885, and named after the local Latour family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_johnson.html |title=Johnson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |access-date=23 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070939/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_johnson.html |archive-date=24 June 2016 }}</ref> A post office called Latour was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1997.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Johnson | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=23 October 2016}}</ref>

La Tour disincorporated on April 13, 2009, after an April 7 vote on the subject passed by the margin of 20 to 1.<ref name=dsj>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailystarjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3937&TM=68493.85|title=Tiny LaTour disincorporates|author=Sterling, Sue|work=Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal|date=2009-04-10|access-date=2009-04-13}}{{dead link|date=March 2024}}</ref>