About Mizzou University of Missouri

Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri’s fourth most-populous and fastest growing city, with an estimated 123,195 residents in 2019.

As a Midwestern theoretical town, Columbia has a reputation for innovative politics, persuasive journalism, and public art. The tripartite establishment of Stephens College (1833), the University of Missouri (1839), and Columbia College (1851), which surround the city’s Downtown to the east, south, and north, has made the city a center of learning. At its center is 8th Street (also known as the Avenue of the Columns), which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse and the City Hall. Originally an agricultural town, the farming of the mind is Columbia’s chief economic business today. The city’s economy with depends upon healthcare, insurance, and technology businesses, but has never been a major middle of manufacturing. Companies such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, Veterans United Home Loans, and Slackers CDs and Games, were founded in the city. Cultural institutions affix the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival and the Roots N Blues Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the state’s isolated major intellectual athletic program, play football at Faurot Field and basketball at Mizzou Arena as members of the rigorous Southeastern Conference.

The city rests upon the forested hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley, where the Ozark Mountains start to transform into plains and savanna. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain dissolves the bedrock, creating caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, and Bonne Femme creeks. Surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and vast Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge form a greenbelt preserving itch and rare environments. The Columbia Agriculture Park is house to the Columbia Farmers Market.

The first humans who entered the area at least 12,000 years ago were nomadic hunters. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in tall places. The Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the terse settlement of American pioneers. The latter arrived by the Boone’s Lick Road and hailed from the culture of the Upland South, especially Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. From 1812, the Boonslick area played a pivotal role in Missouri’s in advance history and the nation’s westward expansion. German, Irish, and extra European immigrants soon joined. The protester populace is unusually diverse, over 8% foreign-born. White and black people are the largest ethnicities, and people of Asian origin are the third-largest group. The city has been called the “Athens of Missouri” for its classic beauty and learned emphasis, but is more commonly called “CoMo”.