Leopold is an unincorporated community in eastern Bollinger County in Southeast Missouri, United States.

The community consists of roughly 65 residents and has one of the smallest public school districts in the state of Missouri.

Wardracker was unable to make the pioneer life and left back for Cincinnati after two years of living here.

When Elmer Nenninger became the postmaster in 1953, the post office was moved to its present location at the corner of Highway N and Main Street.

Mr. Beussink had been associated for a number of years with a transmission service company in St. Louis until 1973 when he returned with his family to the Leopold area and built the modern three-bay service facility on a farm on Highway F, purchased from Herman Beussink.

On October 16, 1966, a group of Catholic men from the community met to organize a Council of the Knights of Columbus in Leopold.

Leopold is bounded in all directions by a number of smaller, unincorporated communities that still retain historical significance.

• Clippard is a historical unincorporated area located somewhere northeast of Laflin, possibly near a county road crossing of Granny Creek.

It was founded in 1893 by John W. Laird and is named for State Senator Robert Drum of Marble Hill.

Realizing the need for education, shortly after the first settlers arrived they formed the Society of St. Willibrord to make arrangements for having a school and to help finance it.

The people of the parish saw fit, by means of self-assessment, to pay the salary of the teacher for an additional three to four months each year.

Old records indicate that, beginning in 1889, a young lady from the community was hired each year to teach the children of the lower grades.

[4] The Southeast Missourian newspaper,[5] which circulates throughout much of the region, has named Leopold the best public school in the area for three years in a row from 2005 to 2008.

[citation needed] St. John's Catholic Church, located on Main Street in Leopold, was built in 1899.

Work began in the spring and the church was built in pure Gothic style from native limestone found around and near the town.

Located in the tiny village of Glennon, St. Anthony's was founded with a wooden framed church dedicated on February 3, 1906.

In May 1944, the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace was dedicated to the members of the parish who were serving in the armed forces.