Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

About Fort Leonard Wood

Set in the southern part of Missouri, Fort Leonard Wood is a small unincorporated community.

Fort Leonard Wood holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 23.03 square miles.

📰 Fort Leonard Wood News Today

• Sipping toward peak performance: Fort Leonard Wood enhances Soldier lethality through tactical hydration army.mil · Jul 29
• News - Fort Leonard Wood celebrates graduates with commencement ceremony DVIDS · Aug 11
• The Army protects you, but it also protects the environment ky3.com · Aug 3
• Polish fugitive arrested during military exercise at Fort Leonard Wood KOMU 8 · May 28
• Fort Leonard Wood Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 24

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Fort Leonard Wood Unique

• The only place in America named Fort Leonard Wood — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southern Missouri, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 15 miles.

🎡 Fun Things to Do

• U.S. Army Engineer, Chemical, and Military Police Museum · Museum

Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Fort Leonard Wood

• Ross Access · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Fort Leonard Wood

• PARTRIDGE ELEM.
• THAYER ELEM.
• WILLIAMS EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR
• WOOD ELEM.

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

🏥 Hospitals & Healthcare

• General Leonard Wood Ach (Ft Leonard Wood) · 24/7 ER

Medicare-registered hospitals with official CMS star ratings.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Fort Leonard Wood

🏘️ Nearby Communities