Missouri - MAJOR VAN LINES LONG DISATNCE MOVERS
Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis.
The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia.[10] Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri generally mirrors the demographic, economic and political makeup of the United States and has long been considered a political bellwether state.[11] With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri voters have elected the next President of the United States in every election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state and early settlement by migrants from the Upper South. It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the "western-most Eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most Western city".
Missouri's geography is highly varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains while the southern part lies in the Ozark Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the two. The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of North America, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis,[12] and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel. The starting points of the Pony Express Trail and Oregon Trail were both in Missouri.[13] The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.[
Missouri borders eight different states, as does its neighbor, Tennessee. No state in the U.S. touches more than eight states. Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee; on the south by Arkansas; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River). The two largest Missouri rivers are the Mississippi, which defines the eastern boundary of the state, and the Missouri River, which flows from west to east through the state, essentially connecting the two largest metros, Kansas City and St. Louis.
Although today the state is usually considered part of the Midwest,[17][18] historically Missouri was considered by many to be a Southern state,[19] chiefly because of the settlement of migrants from the South and its status as a slave state before the Civil War. The counties that made up "Little Dixie" were those along the Missouri River in the center of the state, settled by Southern migrants who held the greatest concentration of slaves.
In 2005, Missouri received 16,695,000 visitors to its national parks and other recreational areas totaling 202,000 acres (820 km2), giving it $7.41 million in annual revenues, 26.6% of its operating expenditures
Monthly Normal High and Low Temperatures For Various Missouri Cities |
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City |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Columbia |
37/18 |
44/23 |
55/33 |
66/43 |
75/53 |
84/62 |
89/66 |
87/64 |
79/55 |
68/44 |
53/33 |
42/22 |
Kansas City |
36/18 |
43/23 |
54/33 |
65/44 |
75/54 |
84/63 |
89/68 |
87/66 |
79/57 |
68/46 |
52/33 |
40/22 |
Springfield |
42/22 |
48/26 |
58/35 |
68/44 |
76/53 |
85/62 |
90/67 |
90/66 |
81/57 |
71/46 |
56/35 |
46/26 |
St. Louis [37] |
40/24 |
45/28 |
56/37 |
67/47 |
76/57 |
85/67 |
89/71 |
88/69 |
80/61 |
69/49 |
56/38 |
43/27 |
