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Missouri is the only state in the Union to have two Federal Reserve Banks: one in Kansas City (serving western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, northern New Mexico, and Wyoming) and one in St. Louis (serving eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, western Kentucky, western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and all ...
The location of the State of Missouri in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the State of Missouri An enlargeable map of the 114 counties and 1 independent city of the State of Missouri. Indigenous peoples. Mississippian culture; French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764 Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
The Missouri State Capitol is the home of the Missouri General Assembly and the executive branch of government of the U.S. state of Missouri. Located in Jefferson City at 201 West Capitol Avenue, it is the third capitol to be built in the city. (The previous two were demolished after they were damaged by fire.)
St. Charles is a charter city under the Missouri Constitution, with a City Council as the governing body. One member is elected for each of the ten wards, in an arrangement known as single-member districts, and each serves a three-year term. [23] The executive head of the city government is the mayor for all legal and ceremonial purposes.
The O'Bannon Family Care Center obstetrics unit at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri, bears the name of his son and wife as remembered from a donation from his grandson Welton Neville O'Bannon. (1854–1910) [citation needed] Milton G. Hatcher 1876 1878 Physician and druggist born in Kentucky who served one term as mayor.
The Flag of Missouri. Missouri (see pronunciation) is a 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.
Located in Tornado Alley, Missouri also receives extreme weather in the form of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. On May 22, 2011, a massive EF-5 tornado killed 158 people and destroyed roughly one-third of the city of Joplin. The tornado caused an estimated $1–3 billion in damages and injured more than a thousand people as it tore through ...
Jefferson City is located on the northern edge of the Ozark Plateau on the southern side of the Missouri River in a region known as Mid-Missouri, that is roughly mid-way between the state's two large urban areas of Kansas City to the west and St. Louis in the east (along the west bank of the Mississippi River).