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Leadington is a small city in St. Francois County, Missouri, in the historic lead-mining region of southeast Missouri known as the Old Lead Belt.

Leadington takes its name from the Leadington Lead Company, which sank a mine shaft on a tract east of Flat River in 1893; the town was platted in 1895, and a post office operated there from 1894 until 1966.

The area around Leadington was part of the original John McKee lead diggings and later passed to the St. Joe Lead Company and the Federal Lead Company, but the local mine was never as successful as others in the Lead Belt and production ceased after a few decades.

The Federal Lead Company built much of early Leadington as an employee housing area, acquiring land in 1902 to erect homes for its workers.

Leadington incorporated as a village on August 28, 1959, after residents raised money to hire an attorney specifically to block an attempt by the neighboring city of Flat River to annex it; voters made it a fourth-class city on June 1, 1976.

For most of the 20th century Leadington was tiny, bottoming out at 201 residents in 1990 and 206 in 2000, but it more than doubled to 422 people at the 2010 census as the Farmington-Park Hills area grew.

The 2020 census counted 764 residents in Leadington, another increase of about 81 percent in a single decade, helped by annexations of business land to the east and southeast.

At the 2010 census, Leadington's 422 residents lived in 193 households, within a city covering about 0.90 square miles.