Moberly, Missouri Moberly, Missouri Location inside Randolph County and Missouri Location inside Randolph County and Missouri Moberly is a town/city in Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
The facade of the historic 4th Street theater in downtown Moberly, MO.
Like other suburbs in the Little Dixie region of Missouri in which it is located, Moberly has a history of ethnic violence.
The Missouri state Moberly Correctional Center was constructed two miles south of Moberly in 1963 as a minimum-security prison.
The World War II-era US Navy frigate USS Moberly (PF-63) was titled for the town.
The Burkholder-O'Keefe House, Moberly Commercial Historic District, and Moberly Junior High School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The town/city of Moberly was born of a barns auction on September 27, 1866.
The same year that the Wabash Railroad shops were rather than in Moberly, the town/city entered a charter into state record and incorporated. At the time, there was no such thing as a council-manager government, but the 1950s saw the government form come into vogue in Missouri. Now, the town/city of Moberly has a council-manager government.
To manage the town/city and oversee day-to-day operations, the council selects a town/city manager. In 2015, the government had these officers: A panorama from the northeast corner of the Kwix-Kres-Kirk office building in downtown Moberly, Missouri.
Moberly is positioned at 39 25 13 N 92 26 20 W (39.420398, -92.438831). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.26 square miles (31.75 km2), of which, 12.22 square miles (31.65 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. The Moberly Micropolitan Travel Destination consists of Randolph County.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 86.4% White, 9.7% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.3% from other competitions, and 2.6% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,960 homeholds of which 32.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.1% were married couples living together, 15.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.1% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 35.7 years.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 90.51% White, 6.71% African American, 0.37% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.39% from other competitions, and 1.34% from two or more competitions.
There were 5,001 homeholds out of which 29.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples living together, 13.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.2% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Railroad exhibition run by the Randolph county historical society, connected to a walking path that runs south, and overlooking the Municipal Auditorium and West Rollins Street.
Moberly Parks and Recreation operates approximately 500 acres of parkland through five parks including maintained grounds, forest, lakes, the Howard Hils Athletic Complex consisting of eight baseball/softball fields and three football/soccer fields, the Moberly Aquatic Center, Thompson Campground, The Lodge, Municipal Auditorium, the Magic City Line - a one mile long miniature train track, over two miles of paved trails, boat ramps, fishing lakes, paddleboat/canoe rentals, and shelters. The Randolph County Historical Society has its command posts in Moberly, and has two exhibitions: one dedicated to county history and genealogy, and another dedicated to the Wabash, MKT, and CB&Q barns s Moberly is home to two colleges; Central Christian College of the Bible and Moberly Area Community College.
The Moberly School District consists of four schools, North and South Park Elementary serve grades K-2, grades 3-5 are enrolled in Gratz Brown Elementary, grades 6-8 in Moberly Middle School, and Moberly High School serves grades 9-12 .
Moberly is served by The Omar Bradley Airport.
Commercial service is available 33 miles to the south in Columbia at the Columbia Regional Airport or the MO-X (an airport shuttle to and from STL and MCI), 60 miles to the south in Jefferson City via the Amtrak station, 45 miles to the north in La Plata via the Amtrak station, or 55 miles to the North in Kirksville at the Kirksville Regional Airport.
The Norfolk Southern Railway serves Moberly running west toward Kansas City, Missouri and east toward Hannibal, Missouri and points on.
Norfolk Southern also runs south between Moberly and St.
Moberly was once the northern end of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad that ran between Moberly and Boonville, Missouri.
Moberly is served by a daily newspaper, the Moberly Monitor-Index.
"Forms of Government for Missouri Municipalities" (PDF).
"City of Moberly Website".
The State Historical Society of Missouri.
Moberly Correctional Center jubilates 50th Anniversary - Gate House "Randolph County Overview".
"History of Moberly" pamphlet from Randolph County Historical Society, four pages.
"List of Works Relating to City Charters, Ordinances, and Collected Documents".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Missouri Population 1900 - 1990" (CSV).
"Enumeration of Population and Housing, 1890, Final Reports Volume 1".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing, 1880, Volume 1 Statistics of the Population of the United States, General Population Table 3".
Moberly Optomist Club Missouri Randolph County Historical Society website Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moberly, Missouri.
City of Moberly Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation Moberly Parks and Recreation Moberly Public Schools Historic maps of Moberly in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Randolph County, Missouri, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Cities in Randolph County, Missouri - Cities in Missouri - Populated places established in 1866 - 1866 establishments in Missouri
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