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St. Louis (/ s eɪ n t ˈ l uː ɪ s, s ən t-/ saynt LOO-iss, sənt-) [11] is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri.It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers.
Of the 41 independent U.S. cities, [3] 38 are in Virginia, whose state constitution makes them a special case. The three independent cities outside Virginia are Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis, Missouri; and Carson City, Nevada. Baltimore is the most populous independent city in the United States.
Map of St Louis in 1885. When Missouri became a state in 1821, St. Louis County was created from the boundaries of the former St. Louis subdistrict of the Missouri Territory; St. Louis city existed within the county but was not coterminous with it.
The city of St. Louis is an independent city, and is not within the limits of a county. Its residents voted to secede from St. Louis County in 1876. Throughout the United States, St. Louis is one of three independent cities outside the state of Virginia (the other two are Baltimore, Maryland, and Carson City, Nevada). [4]
Geography of St. Louis. St. Louis is located at 38°38′53″N 90°12′44″W. [ 1] The city is built primarily on bluffs and terraces that rise 100–200 feet (30–61 m) above the western banks of the Mississippi River, just south of the Missouri -Mississippi confluence. Much of the area is a fertile and gently rolling prairie that features ...
Area code (s) 217, 314, 447, 557, 573, 618, 636, 730. Greater St. Louis is the 21st-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, [ 3][ 4] the largest in Missouri, and the second-largest in Illinois. Its core city — St. Louis, Missouri —sits in the geographic center of the metro area, on the west bank of the Mississippi ...
The three independent cities outside Virginia are Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis, Missouri; and Carson City, Nevada. New York City displays many features associated with independent cities but is, in fact, a sui generis municipality that is coextensive with five counties. Counties invariably are administrative divisions of state government.
Clayton is a city in and the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri, and borders the independent city of St. Louis. The population was 17,355 at the 2020 census. [ 4] Organized in 1877, the city was named after Ralph Clayton, a former slave owner, [ 5] who donated the land for the St. Louis County courthouse.