Cedar City is a former incorporated city in southern Callaway County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on the Missouri River floodplain across the river channel from Jefferson City and is near the interchange of U.S. Routes 54 and 63.[2] It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Cedar City was platted in 1866 and is named after the eastern redcedar tree.[3] David Kenney, owner of the Cedar City Land Company petitioned to have the community incorporated in 1870.[4] It existed as a city until 1989, when the city merged into Jefferson City.[citation needed] The population of the city before the merger was reported as 427 in the 1980 Decennial Census.[citation needed] Flooding of the Missouri River in 1993 inundated the entire community and virtually all the homeowners were bought out by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).[5] Most of the area of the former city now consists of parks and businesses. A post office called Cedar City has been in operation since 1870.[6]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cedar City, Missouri
  2. ^ Jefferson City, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1986 rev.)
  3. ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 268.
  4. ^ "Cedar City". Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 30, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "How The Flood Of 1993 Impacted And Changed North Jefferson City, Rhineland". St. Louis Public Radio KWMU.
  6. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.

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