Chillicothe, Missouri | |
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 Livingston County Courthouse with mural depicting the community being the home of sliced bread. The district around the courthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places. | |
| Nicknames: Chilli; Home of Sliced Bread; The Highway City | |
 Location of Chillicothe, Missouri | |
| Coordinates:39°47′43″N93°32′59″W / 39.79528°N 93.54972°W /39.79528; -93.54972[1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Livingston |
| Town (Large) | March 1st, 1855 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Township |
| • Mayor | Theresa Kelly |
| Area | |
• Total | 7.16 sq mi (18.54 km2) |
| • Land | 7.14 sq mi (18.48 km2) |
| • Water | 0.027 sq mi (0.07 km2) |
| Elevation | 774 ft (236 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 9,107 |
| • Density | 1,276.7/sq mi (492.93/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 64601 |
| Area code | 660 |
| FIPS code | 29-13690[3] |
| GNIS feature ID | 2393517[1] |
| Website | www.chillicothecity.org |
Chillicothe is a city in and thecounty seat ofLivingston County,Missouri, United States.[4] The population was 9,107 at the2020 census. The name "Chillicothe" isShawnee for "big town". Chillicothe is known as "The Home of Sliced Bread". For many years its schools were segregated and African American students attended what eventually became known as Garrison School, named afterWilliam Lloyd Garrison.[5]
This territory was originally settled byindigenous peoples of the Americas. TheOsage andMissouri were in the territory at the time of earliest European contact, which was mostly by French explorers and traders. By 1800 theShawnee andIowa had migrated here. The Shawnee came from theOhio Country, where they had been under pressure before theAmerican Revolution from aggressiveIroquois and later encroaching European Americans. Displacing the Osage, the Shawnee had a major village known asChillicothe about a mile from the present-day city, named after their historic capital in their traditional lands in Ohio.Chillicothe was also the name of a majorband of thetribe. Other Native American tribes in the area were theSauk andMeskwaki, andPotawatomi, all of whom hunted in the area.[6]
In the early 19th century, European-American migration to Missouri increased. The original survey of Chillicothe by United States citizens was filed for record August 31, 1837, and a resurvey of the same was filed August 5, 1859.[7] Chillicothe was incorporated as a city by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 1, 1855. It was selected as the County seat by commissioners and the first term of the county court began on May 7, 1838. In August of that year an order was made to erect the first Court House, the cost not to exceed $5,000, in the Public Square; The firstcircuit court for the trial of civil and criminal causes was held on the 3d of July 1887.[8]
Livingston was settled by emigrants from the older counties and others from theUpper South states ofKentucky andTennessee, as well asOhio and other "Old Northwest" states, as the westward migration continued. Prior to completion of theHannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in 1859, the city was minimally developed with cheap frame houses, with little pretense of architectural beauty or design. The building materials being hewed and sawed from the oak and walnut timber surrounding the town, as timber originally covered the site.[8]
Therailroad gave an impetus for town improvements. Soon two and three-story brick business buildings were constructed in place of the former frame structures. From 1865 to 1870, the city improved rapidly, then a lull lasted until 1875, when the erection of the beautiful three-story, $36,000 school building was started, now known as "Middle School." From that time on Chillicothe made a slow, steady growth up to 1886, when theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad was built through here. That year also saw the introduction of the "Water Works" and electric lights. The city continued to modernize in the early 20th century.[8]
Chillicothe was located along the first railroad completed across the State of Missouri on February 13, 1859 by theHannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, later becoming theChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. TheWabash Railroad completed a line toBrunswick, Missouri in 1871. Passenger rail served the town for over a century. The last passenger train passed through Chillicothe in 1971, when theAmerican Royal Zephyr between Chicago and Kansas City was discontinued. The tracks eastward toward Brookfield were abandoned in the early 1980s and have been mostly removed. The 1909 Depot was owned by the City of Chillicothe until 2016, when it was sold to Wabash BBQ to be used as a restaurant.[9] The restaurant has since closed.
The Missouri Training School for Girls (1889-1981) was the correctional facility of theMissouri Division of Youth Services. It opened in 1889. In 1956, the school received all of the black girls after the Missouri Training School for Negro Girls inTipton closed.[10] The school closed in 1981.[11]
Chillicothe is located in central Livingston County. TheGrand River flows past approximately one mile south of the city and the confluence of theThompson River with the Grand is about three miles to the southwest. The city is served byU.S. Route 36,U.S. Route 65 andMissouri Route 190.[12]
According to theUnited States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.03 square miles (18.21 km2), of which 7.02 square miles (18.18 km2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water.[13]
| Climate data for Chillicothe 2S, Missouri (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1980–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 74 (23) | 77 (25) | 86 (30) | 93 (34) | 98 (37) | 108 (42) | 110 (43) | 109 (43) | 100 (38) | 95 (35) | 81 (27) | 75 (24) | 110 (43) |
| Mean maximum °F (°C) | 59.0 (15.0) | 65.3 (18.5) | 77.3 (25.2) | 84.1 (28.9) | 89.6 (32.0) | 94.4 (34.7) | 98.2 (36.8) | 97.7 (36.5) | 92.1 (33.4) | 85.7 (29.8) | 73.7 (23.2) | 62.9 (17.2) | 99.9 (37.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 34.5 (1.4) | 39.8 (4.3) | 52.0 (11.1) | 63.5 (17.5) | 73.5 (23.1) | 83.1 (28.4) | 87.3 (30.7) | 85.7 (29.8) | 78.3 (25.7) | 66.1 (18.9) | 51.4 (10.8) | 39.2 (4.0) | 62.9 (17.1) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 25.4 (−3.7) | 30.2 (−1.0) | 41.4 (5.2) | 52.4 (11.3) | 63.3 (17.4) | 73.1 (22.8) | 77.2 (25.1) | 75.1 (23.9) | 66.7 (19.3) | 54.5 (12.5) | 41.3 (5.2) | 30.5 (−0.8) | 52.6 (11.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 16.3 (−8.7) | 20.6 (−6.3) | 30.8 (−0.7) | 41.4 (5.2) | 53.2 (11.8) | 63.1 (17.3) | 67.1 (19.5) | 64.4 (18.0) | 55.1 (12.8) | 42.8 (6.0) | 31.2 (−0.4) | 21.7 (−5.7) | 42.3 (5.7) |
| Mean minimum °F (°C) | −3.1 (−19.5) | 2.0 (−16.7) | 12.0 (−11.1) | 27.7 (−2.4) | 39.3 (4.1) | 51.1 (10.6) | 57.4 (14.1) | 54.9 (12.7) | 40.6 (4.8) | 28.2 (−2.1) | 16.1 (−8.8) | 2.9 (−16.2) | −7.7 (−22.1) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −20 (−29) | −17 (−27) | −6 (−21) | 11 (−12) | 31 (−1) | 44 (7) | 50 (10) | 41 (5) | 30 (−1) | 19 (−7) | −9 (−23) | −26 (−32) | −26 (−32) |
| Averageprecipitation inches (mm) | 1.26 (32) | 1.80 (46) | 2.90 (74) | 3.75 (95) | 5.36 (136) | 5.21 (132) | 4.71 (120) | 4.61 (117) | 4.39 (112) | 3.22 (82) | 2.29 (58) | 1.69 (43) | 41.19 (1,047) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 4.7 (12) | 4.5 (11) | 1.6 (4.1) | 0.3 (0.76) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.4 (1.0) | 2.4 (6.1) | 13.9 (34.96) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.01 in) | 6.3 | 7.3 | 9.2 | 11.3 | 13.1 | 10.9 | 9.3 | 9.6 | 8.6 | 9.3 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 108.9 |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.1 in) | 2.8 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 8.8 |
| Source:NOAA[14][15] | |||||||||||||
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 994 | — | |
| 1870 | 3,978 | 300.2% | |
| 1880 | 4,078 | 2.5% | |
| 1890 | 5,717 | 40.2% | |
| 1900 | 6,905 | 20.8% | |
| 1910 | 6,265 | −9.3% | |
| 1920 | 6,772 | 8.1% | |
| 1930 | 8,177 | 20.7% | |
| 1940 | 8,012 | −2.0% | |
| 1950 | 8,694 | 8.5% | |
| 1960 | 9,236 | 6.2% | |
| 1970 | 9,519 | 3.1% | |
| 1980 | 9,089 | −4.5% | |
| 1990 | 8,804 | −3.1% | |
| 2000 | 8,968 | 1.9% | |
| 2010 | 9,515 | 6.1% | |
| 2020 | 9,107 | −4.3% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[16] | |||
The2020 United States census[17] counted 9,107 people, 3,608 households, and 2,044 families in Chillicothe. The population density was 1,277.3 per square mile (492.8/km2). There were 4,114 housing units at an average density of 577.0 per square mile (222.6/km2). The racial makeup was 90.63% (8,254)white, 3.38% (308)black or African-American, 0.32% (29)Native American, 0.83% (76)Asian, 0.01% (1)Pacific Islander, 0.55% (50) fromother races, and 4.27% (389) from two or more races.Hispanic orLatino of any race was 2.3% (212) of the population.
Of the 3,608 households, 27.5% had children under the age of 18; 40.0% were married couples living together; 34.4% had a female householder with no husband present. Of all households, 35.5% consisted of individuals and 18.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.1 and the average family size was 2.8.
18.9% of the population was under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 20.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.8 years. For every 100 females, the population had 67.4 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older, there were 60.9 males.
The 2016-2020 5-yearAmerican Community Survey[18] estimates show that the median household income was $45,496 (with a margin of error of +/- $3,506) and the median family income was $56,488 (+/- $8,384). Males had a median income of $34,937 (+/- $3,959) versus $25,867 (+/- $3,033) for females. The median income for those above 16 years old was $30,715 (+/- $1,036). Approximately, 14.1% of families and 16.0% of the population were below thepoverty line, including 18.5% of those under the age of 18 and 16.3% of those ages 65 or over.
As of thecensus[19] of 2010, there were 9,515 people, 3,612 households, and 2,146 families living in the city. Thepopulation density was 1,355.4 inhabitants per square mile (523.3/km2). There were 4,108 housing units at an average density of 585.2 per square mile (225.9/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 93.5%White, 3.7%African American, 0.4%Native American, 0.3%Asian, 0.5% fromother races, and 1.5% from two or more races.Hispanic orLatino of any race were 1.5% of the population.
There were 3,612 households, of which 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.6% weremarried couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.6% were non-families. 35.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.90.
The median age in the city was 39.6 years. 21.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.3% were from 25 to 44; 24.3% were from 45 to 64; and 18.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 41.3% male and 58.7% female.
As of thecensus[3] of 2000, there were 8,968 people, 3,608 households, and 2,197 families living in the city. The population density was 1,370.9 inhabitants per square mile (529.3/km2). There were 4,060 housing units at an average density of 620.7 per square mile (239.7/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 93.86%White, 3.69%African American, 0.41%Native American, 0.40%Asian, 0.35% fromother races, and 1.29% from two or more races.Hispanic orLatino of any race were 0.96% of the population.
There were 3,608 households, out of which 28.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.1% weremarried couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families. 35.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. school districts.The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.92.
In the city the population was spread out, with 23.2% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 21.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 75.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 68.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $30,053, and the median income for a family was $40,163. Males had a median income of $29,070 versus $19,745 for females. Theper capita income for the city was $16,172. About 9.6% of families and 13.4% of the population were below thepoverty line, including 17.1% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over.
TheChillicothe R-II School District provides preschool through 12th grade education as well as some other educational programs to students in and around Chillicothe.[20][21]
The town has a lending library, the Livingston County Library.[24]The town has a children library, the Lillian DesMarias Youth Library.
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