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100 unusual facts about Missouri


1973 Winchester 400

When Dave Wall of Kansas City, Missouri, failed to show for qualifying, Schrock hopped in the car and turned in the seventh-fastest time of the 89 cars that would attempt to qualify.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named "Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway" after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an "Adopt-A-Highway" plan.

Al Conway

He and his wife, Bev, resided in Branson, Missouri and had five children, Mike, Susie, Jim, Patty, and David.

Al-Haramain Foundation

The Ashland chapter assisted the Islamic Society of Springfield, Missouri, in the purchase of a prayer house, but the Springfield organization shares no common directors and is not and never was under the control of the Al-Haramain organization.

Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni married twice, first in 1892 to Maggie Lina of Bevier, Missouri, and again in 1906 to Emma Belcher of Boone County, Missouri.

Alexander Caldwell

Caldwell died in Kansas City, Missouri in 1917, and is interred at Mount Muncie Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Alfred Morrison Lay

Born in Lewis County, Missouri, Lay moved with his parents to Benton County in 1842.

Alpheus Cutler

When Joseph Smith moved church headquarters to Caldwell County, Missouri in 1837, Cutler followed him there and settled in adjacent Ray County.

Amazonia, Missouri

Amazonia is a village in Lincoln Township, Andrew County, Missouri, United States.

Ameristar Casinos

Ameristar's properties in Kansas City and St. Charles, Missouri, and Black Hawk, Colorado, benefitted from casino-related regulatory reform approved by voters in 2008-09.

Arkamo Rangers

The Arkamo Rangers were a Springfield, Missouri bluegrass band with simple and traditional sound yet rebellious and questioning lyrics celebrating modern life with traditional ways.

Asplenium × gravesii

It has been found in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Hocking County, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Madison County, Missouri, Arkansas, Dade County, Georgia, and Alabama.

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad

The new branch, defined by state law to lie south of the Osage River, began at Franklin (now Pacific) on the main line and headed west-southwesterly across the state.

Austra Skujytė

On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8366.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Battle of Moore's Mill was an American Civil War battle that took place in Central Missouri on July 28, 1862 along Auxvasse Creek near modern day Calwood.

Benny Meyer

Bernhard Meyer (January 21, 1885 – February 6, 1974) born in Hematite, Missouri, was a baseball outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1913), Baltimore Terrapins (1914–15), Buffalo Blues (1915) and Philadelphia Phillies (1925).

Bob Gassoff

He was killed in a motorcycle accident on the country property of his friend and team-mate Garry Unger near Gray Summit, Missouri; his number 3 was subsequently retired by the Blues.

Bois Brule Township, Perry County, Missouri

There are 6 unincorporated communities in Bois Brule Township: Allans Landing, Belgique, Bishop’s Landing, Claryville, McBride, Menfro and Sereno.

Bolckow, Missouri

Bolckow is a city in Benton Township, Andrew County, Missouri, United States.

Borden, Indiana

Norman M. Coats of Kirkwood, Missouri has written a book called Growing Up on Daisy Hill, which chronicles his early years being born and raised in the nearby hills and hollows of Borden during the Great Depression.

Bridgeton, Missouri

The populated areas of the city are located between Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and St. Charles.

Brother Phelps

They were raised in the Missouri Bootheel and Doug graduated from a small school named Southland located in Cardwell, Missouri.

Cassville, Missouri

Cassville is a city in Flat Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

Charles Gargotta

On April 5, 1950, Binaggio and Gargotta drove to the Jackson County, Missouri Democratic Club in Kansas City to meet a trusted associate.

Charles Jaco

Charles Jaco (born August 21, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri) is an American journalist and author, best known for his coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War.

Charles Mulford Robinson

He was hired in 1910 to review the city design and planning of St. Joseph, Missouri.

Charles Zagonyi

Zagonyi Park in Springfield, Missouri is named for Zagonyi and his famous charge there.

Cheppy

It was a site of fighting during the World War I. An American monument have been erected there by the State of Missouri after the war to honour the volunteers of the state.

David A. De Armond

He was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, attended Lycoming College and moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Davenport; moved to Missouri in 1869 and settled in Greenfield, Missouri, Dade County, Missouri.

Dean L. Hubbard

In 1988 Hubbard resolved a crisis when the Missouri Department of Education under John Ashcroft proposed closing Northwest and designating Missouri Western State University 40 miles south in St. Joseph, Missouri being the only state university in northwest Missouri.

Decaturville, Missouri

Decaturville, Missouri is an unincorporated community in Warren Township, Camden County.

Dixon, Missouri

Route 133 runs north from Interstate 44 exit 145 about two miles east of Hazelgreen to Richland, Swedeborg, Crocker, and about two miles west of Dixon, then north out of the county.

Dongola, Missouri

Dongola is an unincorporated community in the southern part of Liberty Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, and is located 7 miles south of Leopold.

Edward Hibberd Johnson

Under General Palmer's direction the Kansas Pacific was extended from Kansas City, Missouri, reaching Denver, Colorado in August 1870.

Edythe Baker

After her mother died around 1910 she was sent to Kansas City, Missouri to live, and attended a convent.

Egbert B. Brown

Among the high points of his career were two victories over Joseph Shelby, at the Second Battle of Springfield during Marmaduke's first raid, and at Marshall, Missouri, during Shelby's Great Raid of 1863.

Eureka, Perry County, Missouri

Eureka is an unincorporated community in Cinque Hommes Township in Perry County, Missouri.

Fenwick Settlement, Missouri

He initially planned to settle on Apple Creek at the mouth of Indian Creek, in close proximity to the villages that the Shawnee were erecting at that time.

Francis Howell North High School

Francis Howell North High School is a secondary school located in St. Charles, Missouri.

Frank Hamilton Short

Soon after Short's birth in Shelby County, Missouri, his father died from drinking poisoned water while engaged in the American Civil War.

Fred Beckett

His professional career began in Kansas City in the 1930s, and soon after he landed a job with Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks in St. Louis, Missouri.

Frederick C. Salomon

On September 30, 1862, he made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Newtonia, Missouri, during the First Battle of Newtonia.

G. Waldo Dunnington

Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Gibbs, Missouri

Gibbs is a village in Wilson Township, Adair County, Missouri, United States.

Goodland, Missouri

It formerly had a post office, but that has closed and its mail now comes from Belleview.

Harry Richard Landis

Landis was born to Jason and Alice Landis in Miller Township, Marion County, Missouri, between Hannibal and Palmyra, where he grew up on the family farm.

Higbee

Higbee, Missouri, a city in Randolph County, Missouri, in the United States

Hooker, Missouri

Built on a new alignment of US 66 (which bypassed the town of Devils Elbow), nothing remains of the town.

Huggins, Missouri

It is located on Route M about two miles north of Route 38 near Bendavis.

Isaac Morley

The citizens were taken by the Missouri militia to Richmond, Ray county, to await trial.

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

James Timberlake

In January 1882, outlaws Robert Ford, Charles Ford and Dick Liddil surrendered to Timberlake at the Fords' sister, Martha Bolton's residence in Ray County, Missouri, on the condition that they would receive full pardons and $10,000 in reward money, in exchange for the death or imprisonment of the gang's ringleader, Jesse James.

James Ward Rector

Born in Glenwood, Missouri, Rector received his bachelors and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

Well into his 80s Joe still did a few shows every year in his homestate of Missouri mostly at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.

Ken McClain

Kenneth B. "Ken" McClain (born August 26, 1957, Detroit, Michigan) is an internationally-known attorney residing and working in Independence, Missouri.

Kevin Sandoval

After retiring from football, Sandoval attended and graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

Knob Lick

Knob Lick, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Saint Francois County, Missouri

Ladell Betts

He and his mother moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to the suburb of Blue Springs when Betts was a child, but he remained very close to his father who has always been an active influence on Ladell over the years.

LaMark Brown

Brown started all four years at Hazelwood West High School in Hazelwood, Missouri at free safety and running back and was a two-time consensus Class 6 all-state performer by the Missouri Coaches Association, the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association and the Kansas City Star.

Laquey, Missouri

Along with Devils Elbow, it is one of only two unincorporated places in Pulaski County to retain a post office, and along with Swedeborg, is one of only two unincorporated communities in the county to retain a school.

Route 7 runs north from Interstate 44 exit 150 about three miles west of Buckhorn to Richland, then north out of the county toward the Lake of the Ozarks region.

Lillian Berlin

In 2003, after a concert in Kansas City, Lillian was stabbed after a show because of his opinion on the events of 9/11.

Live at the Gem

Live at the Gem is The Elders' second live album recorded at a 2005 concert at The Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.

Louis Lorimier

Lorimier is also responsible for the founding of at least two Missouri counties: Cape Girardeau County, and Bollinger County, the next county to the west.

Cape Girardeau County was first settled by mix of French Canadian and Shawnee refugees who had fled with Lorimier from Pickawillany in the Ohio Country.

Manchester United Methodist Church

Manchester United Methodist Church (formerly Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church, abbreviated Manchester UMC or simply MUMC) is a United Methodist megachurch in Manchester, Missouri.

Marideth Sisco

She was living in the Ozark town of West Plains, Missouri, when she had a chance encounter that would change her status from that of a retired journalist and part-time musician to that of a minor celebrity.

Marthasville, Missouri

Because of the many wineries from here east to Defiance, Marthasville is considered to mark one end of the "Missouri Weinstrasse".

Maryville University

Maryville University of St. Louis is a private, coeducational university located in the city of Town and Country, Missouri, United States.

May 26–31, 2013 tornado outbreak

The tornado continued causing damage in residential areas before crossing the Missouri River into St. Louis County and Earth City, Bridgeton, and the northern side of Maryland Heights as it moved along Interstate 70 near its intersection with Interstate 270.

Mel Bay

Melbourne E. Bay was born on February 25, 1913 in the little Ozark Mountain town of Bunker, Missouri.

Micronesian American

Micronesians are also increasing rapidly in other places of the U.S. such as in Kansas City, Missouri, where the majority of the Micronesians are of Pohnpeian origin.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

Mitchell F. Jayne

Turning his talents to other venues, Jayne authored a weekly column in the Shannon County Wave, in his adopted Ozark hometown of Eminence, Missouri.

Moberly Area Community College

Moberly Area Community College (commonly MACC) is a two-year college based in Moberly, Missouri, United States.

Modern Day Zero

They approached Scott Gertken while he was singing and playing rhythm guitar for a Foristell, Missouri-based band called Trailer.

National Climatic Data Center

Processing of the climate data was accomplished at Weather Records Processing Centers at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kansas City, Missouri, and San Francisco, California, until January 1, 1963 when it became consolidated with the NWRC.

Onie Wheeler

Wheeler was born in Senath, Missouri, and learned to play guitar and harmonica as a child.

Phil Mulkey

Philip Roy "Phil" Mulkey (born January 7, 1933 in Monett, Missouri) is an American track and field athlete, primarily known for the multi-event decathlon.

Ralph Sutton

Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri.

Richard Rosenberg

At the time of his death from carbon monoxide poisoning in Wentzville, Missouri he had written and was filming what was intended to be the fourth film in the series, The 100% All-Beef Doom.

Rick Blubaugh

Rick Brian Blubaugh (born December 28, 1964, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri) is an American former professional soccer player.

River City Casino

Located in Lemay, Missouri, River City Casino is on the western bank of the Mississippi River.

Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3

The bonus disc contains additional material from the same concerts as well as four songs from the concert held the previous evening, May 14, 1970, at Meramec Community College in Kirkwood, Missouri.

Robert Joseph Hermann

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Hermann represented the Archbishop in overseeing the parishes in five deaneries: Northeast St. Louis County, Northwest St. Louis County, Festus, St. Charles County and Washington.

Salem Lutheran Church, Farrar, Missouri

The original congregation had some ties to the Paitzdorf congregation in Paitzdorf (present-day Uniontown), Missouri.

Sandy DiPasquale

In 2008 DiPasquale moved his newest venture, Newport Television, to Kansas City, Missouri.

Sidney D. Jackman

Soon after getting married Jackman moved his family to Howard County, Missouri, and in 1855 they settled in Papinville, located in Bates County.

By late in the 1840s he was living in Boone County, Missouri, where he look up work as a schoolteacher as well as farming.

Smith W. Brookhart

Brookhart was born in a cabin on a farm in Scotland County, Missouri, the son of Abram C. and Cynthia Wildman Brookhart.

St. Charles County, Missouri

It is mostly a six-lane freeway throughout most of the county but there are sections in St. Charles and St. Peters where the Interstate widens to 11 lanes of traffic.

Swedeborg, Missouri

Route 17 crosses Interstate 44 at exit 153 at Buckhorn, runs east through Waynesville, turns north to Crocker, and then runs north out of the county to Iberia.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

Times of Northeast Benton County

In addition to the city of Pea Ridge, the newspaper covers the communities of Little Flock to the south, Avoca and Brightwater to the southeast, Garfield, Lost Bridge and Gateway to the east, and historically — though intermittently in recent years — Jacket and Mountain to the north in Missouri.

Washington Missourian

The Washington Missourian is the Franklin County paper based in Washington, Missouri.

Waynesville, Missouri

South of Interstate 44, Highway 17 hugs the western edge of Fort Leonard Wood, passes near Laquey, and circles south of the post until it runs out of the county and eventually joins Highway 32 in Roby.

William B. Hanna

At the age of four, he relocated with his family to Kansas City, Missouri.

Willis Ricketts

He graduated in 1950 from the School of Pharmacy at the College of the Ozarks, a Christian institution in Point Lookout, Missouri.

Zamir Gotta

He is best known as the traveling companion of American chef Anthony Bourdain in his Travel Channel TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, when they traveled to Uzbekistan, Russia and Romania and later in the U.S. Rust Belt, Ukraine, and Kansas City.


Anthony Peeler

He had expressed interest in joining the coaching staff of Frank Haith at Missouri in 2011, but no job offer was forthcoming.

Bill Clay

Poplar Street Bridge St. Louis, Missouri renamed on October 7, 2013 Congressman William L. Clay Sr.

Brighton, Missouri

Brighton, Missouri is revealed to be the boyhood home of Sergeant Matthew Baker, the fictional protagionist in the 2007 Ubisoft Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 game, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

Brutus Hamilton

Hamilton was born on July 19, 1900 in Peculiar, Missouri, and in Missouri he grew up as a farm boy whose parents' property was next door to the Harry S. Truman family farm.

Charles Binaggio

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Binaggio moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, at an early age.

Clint Tracy

These included Jeff Glenn, an executive with Delta Companies and former aide to former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.); and Wayne Wallingford, a retired Air Force officer and head of human resources for McDonald's of Southeast Missouri.

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

David Catania

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Catania is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center.

David Hickman

David Henry Hickman (1821–1869), legislator and businessman from Columbia, Missouri

Downtown Columbia Historic District

Downtown Columbia, Missouri, which includes a Downtown Columbia Historic District listed on the NRHP in Missouri

Edinburg, Missouri

A home of Thompson, for whom the Thompson Branch of the Grand River (Missouri) is named, is in nearby Crowder State Park.

Embassy of the United States, Oslo

The Embassy Chancery on Henrik Ibsens gate was designed by Finnish–American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed the American Embassy in London and the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

FC Kansas City

On December 12, 2012, FC Kansas City announced that Vlatko Andonovski, a former professional player and head coach of the Kansas City Kings of the PASL and Missouri Olympic Development Program (ODP), would be head coach of the team.

Franklin Archibald Dick

He was assistant adjutant general to Nathaniel Lyon at Camp Jackson (the first Missouri Civil War incident); Missouri provost marshal general under Major General Samuel Curtis; law partner with Montgomery Blair at the Blair House in Washington D C after the Civil War.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

French people in Nebraska

In 1824 Jean-Pierre Cabanné established Cabanne's Trading Post for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company near Fort Lisa, at the confluence of Ponca Creek and the Missouri River.

Harrison E. Havens

He was born in Franklin County, Ohio and was the Republican Party Representative from Missouri for the 4th District in the 42nd United States Congress between 1871 and 1873, and for the 6th District in the 43rd United States Congress from 1873 to 1875.

Harry Ice

Ice was an all-Big Six selection in 1941 as Missouri won the conference championship and went on to the Sugar Bowl, where he was the game's MVP.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

James Britton

James H. Britton (1817–1900), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, United States

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

John William Boone

The John William Boone Heritage Foundation was founded to preserve the history of Blind Boone and to elaborate the important role Missouri played in the development of Ragtime and early Jazz music.

Josh Outman

Outman pitched for Forest Park Community College in Saint Louis, before transferring to the University of Central Missouri (formerly Central Missouri State University).

Kape

KAPE, a radio station (1550 AM) licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States.

Kay Barnes

In late 2007, Barnes announced she would run in the Democratic primary for Missouri's 6th congressional district, held by four-term Republican Sam Graves.

KBFL

KBFL-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Buffalo, Missouri, United States

KIIK

KOZQ-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, which held the call sign KIIK-FM from 2007 to 2011

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

L. William Zahner

William Zahner III (b. June 30, 1955, in Kansas City, Missouri) is the president and CEO of Zahner, an architectural metal company in Kansas City, Missouri.

Lawrence County, Missouri

All of Lawrence County is a part of Missouri’s 29th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Jack Goodman (R-Mount Vernon.

Mac Tonnies

Tonnies grew up in Independence, Missouri, and attended William Chrisman High School and Ottawa University.

Malden, Missouri

Malden is a city in the northeast corner of Dunklin County, Missouri, United States, located near the intersection of Missouri Route 25 and U.S. Route 62.

Mopac

The Mopac Expressway, State Highway Loop 1 in Austin, Texas, named after the Missouri Pacific railroad whose tracks bisect the expressway.

Nishnabotna Township, Atchison County, Missouri

Nishnabotna Township is probably best known outside the immediate region for a reference by the New Yorker cartoonist George Booth, a native of Missouri.

North Dakota Highway 1804

Highway 1804 begins at the border between North Dakota and South Dakota near Pollock, South Dakota, and continues uninterrupted along the north east side of the Missouri River through Emmons, Burleigh, McLean, Mountrail, and Williams counties.

Patricia Breckenridge

Breckenridge was one of three candidates Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission proposed to governor Matt Blunt to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Pierre Chouteau, Jr.

In 1847 Pierre and his brother Auguste established Fort Benton in present-day Chouteau County, Montana as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

Robert Christopher

Robert Collins Christopher was an American journalist who served in World War II and was in the force that occupied Japan after Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

Rory Ellinger

He also served as University of Missouri - Columbia chapter president of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Russell Alexander

Russell Alexander (February 26, 1877 in Nevada City, Missouri – October 2, 1915 in New York City) was an entertainer and composer, active primarily with vaudeville shows and musical comedy organizations.

Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

In August 1867 the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River opened a branch from Missouri Valley Junction west to California Junction (sold to the Sioux City and Pacific in July 1871), where the Sioux City and Pacific, funded by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River, began constructing its line north through the Missouri River Valley, reaching Sioux City in February 1868.

Springfield, Colorado

According to the Plainsman Herald from March 1988, the town was settled in 1888 or 1889 by Frank Pierce Tipton (DPOB 10 December 1852, Gallipolis, Ohio) who had travelled to Springfield from Moulton, Iowa, via Springfield, Missouri, in 1886 or 1887 in a covered wagon.

The Wolf

WDAF-FM The Wolf, an American radio station in Kansas City, Missouri

Thomas B. Marsh

The town had been founded by the presidency of the Missouri Stake, consisting of David Whitmer, William Wines Phelps and John Whitmer.

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.

Thomas Halsey

Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863–1961), United States Representative from Missouri

Truman Reservoir

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, however, did relocate its main line between La Due and Clinton; the project included five miles of new track and a causeway/bridge combination over the lake.

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

William Wesley Cox

He ran in many elections, and his last attempt at office was in 1944, running for the United States Senate seat in Missouri, at the age of 79.