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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ miz-OOR-ee) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City.

Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South rushed into the new Missouri Territory; Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business.

Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouri has been called the "Mother of the West", the "Cave State", and the "Show Me State". Its culture blends elements of the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is the birthplace of the musical genres ragtime, Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and the lesser-known St. Louis-style barbecue, can be found across the state and beyond. (Full article...)

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The Fifth Down Game was a college football game on October 6, 1990, that included a play that the crew officiating the game permitted to occur in error. That play enabled the Colorado Buffaloes to defeat the Missouri Tigers by scoring a touchdown at the end of the game. The ensuing controversy cast doubt on Colorado's claim to Division I-A's 1990 national championship, which it went on to share with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. It has been called one of the top memorable moments and blunders in college football history. (Full article...)

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Image 1Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 2The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 3Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 4The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 5American pioneers such as Daniel Boone with his sons Daniel Morgan Boone, Nathan Boone, and other family members, came to Spanish-controlled Missouri during the 1790s. (from History of Missouri)
Image 6The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 7The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 8Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 9The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 10Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 11Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 12Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 13Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 14The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 15Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)

Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Black or African American

40–50%

(from Missouri)

Image 17The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 18Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 19The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 20Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 21Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 22Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 23Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 24The 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. (from Missouri)
Image 25Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 26The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 27The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 28African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 29Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 30The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 31Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 32Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 33African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 34Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 35Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 36A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 37Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 38Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 39Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 40The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 41Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 42Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 43Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 44Christopher Bond became the youngest person elected Governor of Missouri in 1972 and was part of the rise of the Republican Party in the state. (from History of Missouri)
Image 45The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 46The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to a non-President and the first for an African-American. (from History of Missouri)
Image 47Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
Legend
- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 48General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 49Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 50General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 51Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 52Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 53A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 54Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 55Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 56Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 57The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 58Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 59Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 60The 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. (from Missouri)
Image 61St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 62Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 63Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 64The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 65The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 66Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 67Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 68The Shelley House in St. Louis was the focus of a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibited restrictive covenants in housing. (from History of Missouri)
Image 69A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 70The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 71Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 72A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 73A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 74Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 75The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 76Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 77Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 78Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)

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... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
... that after his professional gridiron football career, Ed "Brick" Travis served as president of the Missouri Auto Dealers Association and as president of a local school board?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?

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