Missouri
Missouri is one of the 50 states in the United States. Its capital is Jefferson City. Its largest cities are Kansas City and Saint Louis. Some other cities are Columbia (which is where the University of Missouri is), and Springfield.
Missouri officially became a state on August 10, 1821. Missouri has also been called the "Mother of the West", the "Cave State", and the "Show Me State".[5]
Missouri's edges touch a total of eight states: Iowa lies to the north; to the east, across the Mississippi River, are Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee; Arkansas lies to the south; and on the west are Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (Kansas and Nebraska are across the Missouri River).
History
Native Americans first settled in Missouri before the arrival of Europeans.
In Columbia, 2018, the Columbia Board of Education voted unanimously to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School to Locust Street Expressive Arts Elementary School.[6]
Missouri Media
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham
Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlaid over the current American states that it encompassed.
The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory.
Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864
Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894.
Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910
World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri.
African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938
A physiographic map of Missouri
Related pages
References
- ↑ Elevations and Distances in the United States (2001)United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ↑ Median Annual Household Income. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ↑ Missouri Revised Statutes Chapter 10 State Emblems Section 10.095State of Missouri. Retrieved July 10, 2007.
- ↑ Missouri Governor declares not just any Bourbon can be called Missouri bourbon. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 12, 2019). Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ↑ Hey Heidi: How did the Show Me State come about?. Ksdk.com (May 19, 2016). Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ↑ McKinney, Roger (May 14, 2018). Columbia Board of Education renames Lee Elementary. https://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20180514/columbia-board-of-education-renames-lee-elementary.
Other websites
- Missouri Government.
- Missouri Digital HeritageMissouri Government.
- Missouri State Guide, from the Library of Congress
- Missouri State Tourism Office.
- Energy & Environmental Data for Missouri. US: DoE. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- Missouri State FactsUSDA. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- American Library Association Government Documents Roundtable. List of searchable databases produced by Missouri state agencies.
- Missouri at the Open Directory Project
- Missouri History, Geology, CultureUM system. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- Historic Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of MissouriUM system.
- 1930 Platbooks of Missouri CountiesUM system. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
| Preceded by Maine |
List of U.S. states by date of statehood Admitted on August 10, 1821 (24th) |
Succeeded by Arkansas |
Coordinates: 38°30′N 92°30′W / 38.5°N 92.5°W
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