Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Missouri City Savings Bank Building and Meeting Hall. Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 1860.
Missouri City dates its founding to 1859 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1860.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Missouri City’s history is told.
Peaked at 581 in 1880; 217 people lived here in 2020.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Missouri City’s Wikipedia page.
Missouri City’s post office has been open since 1867. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia’s history of Missouri City.
Missouri City was originally named Atchison. The earliest known use of the name was on a deed to a building from 1820. The land was possessed by French fur traders Antoine Laffond and Bernard Laffond as early as January 24, 1807. The name had changed to Missouri City by December 5, 1857.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Missouri City, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Missouri City Christian Church, as its name indicates, is located at Missouri City, where on Main street there was built in about 1859, at an expense of some $2,500, a good brick ediiice, in which the present membership of about 150 persons worship. As organized in about the year 1856, the members were E. D. Bell and wife, T. C. Reed and wife, Nancy Reed and two daughters, Richard Funk and wife, B. F. Melon and wife, George W. Bell and wife, Merritt Fisher and wife and Milton Hull. Rev.
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The Missouri City Coal Company of Missouri City, Missouri, is the only coal mine in Clay County. This company was organized and began business in 1893 with a capital stock of $2000.00 by local men. The capital stock was increased in 1895, to $10,000.00. The following were the officers at the time of the incorporation: Willias M. Simmons, president; Charles W. Norton, secretary; Luther A. Bell, J. M. Grubbs, and Josiah Lingenfelter, directors. There were about twenty stockholders.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Missouri City. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Missouri City.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
In 1859, according to Wikidata. Missouri City’s post office opened in 1836, and the census of 1860 counted 480 people here.
One place: the Missouri City Savings Bank Building and Meeting Hall (listed 2010).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (7), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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