Golf in La Plata

La Plata is the Macon County seat in northeastern Missouri's agricultural uplands, a small county seat serving the grain and cattle farming community of the upper Chariton River country. Macon County's agricultural economy has sustained a modest county seat that maintains its institutional functions despite the rural population decline affecting much of northeastern Missouri. The gently varied terrain of north-central Missouri's uplands creates the landscape context for a community maintaining its agricultural service role. Missouri's community golf facilities serve as important social institutions where professional and agricultural families share recreational space, maintaining the civic connections that sustain small-city and rural community life across the state.