Osceola, Missouri
| Osceola, Missouri | |
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| City | |
 Location of Osceola, Missouri |
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| Coordinates: 38°2′47″N 93°41′58″W / 38.04639°N 93.69944°WCoordinates: 38°2′47″N 93°41′58″W / 38.04639°N 93.69944°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | St. Clair |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.94 sq mi (2.43 km2) |
| • Land | 0.91 sq mi (2.36 km2) |
| • Water | 0.03 sq mi (0.08 km2) |
| Elevation | 751 ft (229 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 947 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 916 |
| • Density | 1,040.7/sq mi (401.8/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 64776 |
| FIPS code | 29-55388 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0756486 |
Osceola is a city in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 947 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of St. Clair County.
Located on the Osage River, the land that became the town of Osceola was inhabited by the tribe of Native Americans who gave the river its name. Two treaties, in 1808 and 1825, signed by the Osage and the U.S. government gave up all the tribe's land in Missouri. With the way cleared for non-native settlers, more people began to arrive in the St. Clair County area in the mid-1830s. The first home was built in the future Osceola in the winter of 1835. Osceola was laid out in 1841. It was named for Osceola, chief of the Seminole tribe.
The town was the site of the September 1861 Sacking of Osceola by Jayhawkers in which the town was burned and its courthouse looted. The event inspired the 1976 Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales. Prior to the attack the town had a population of around 2,500. However, fewer than 200 residents remained after the event and the population has never again approached those numbers. In September 2011, lingering bad feelings over the raid and the sesquicentennial of the event prompted the Osceola Board of Aldermen to pass a resolution asking the University of Kansas no longer to use "Jayhawk" as their mascot and nickname. Further, the resolution asks Missouri residents to stop spelling Kansas or KU with a capital letter because "neither is a proper name or a proper place".
The Osceola Public School Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Osceola is located at 38°2′47″N 93°41′58″W / 38.04639°N 93.69944°W (38.046427, -93.699512). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.94 square miles (2.43 km2), of which, 0.91 square miles (2.36 km2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water.
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