Cedar City, Missouri
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The population of the city before the merger was reported as 427 in the 1980 Decennial Census.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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]
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- ↑ Jefferson City, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1986 rev.)
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