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Birch Tree is a city in southwestern Shannon County, Missouri, located in the Ozarks on US Route 60, approximately 11 miles east of Mountain View and 8.5 miles west of Winona, with a population of 541 as of the 2020 census. The community, established with a post office dating to the 1860s, was named after a grove of birch trees near the original town site. Covering 1.38 square miles, Birch Tree is served by the Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III School District and features a public library. The city is notably the hometown of Mel Carnahan, who served as Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000 and became the only person posthumously elected to the U.S. Senate. Columbia is the county seat of Boone County, Missouri, and the fourth-most populous city in the state with 126,254 residents in 2020, growing nearly 40% since 2000 to an estimated 130,900 in 2024. Founded in 1821 in the Boonslick region, Columbia is a major Midwestern college town home to the University of Missouri (Mizzou), plus Stephens College and Columbia College, attracting nearly 40,000 students and earning recognition as among the most-educated U.S. cities with about 50% college graduates. The city's economy centers on education and healthcare, including the University of Missouri Health Care system, the most-powerful research nuclear reactor in the United States, and companies like Carfax, Shelter Insurance, and Veterans United Home Loans. Located on oak-forested hills near the Missouri River where the Ozarks meet plains, Columbia features the Avenue of the Columns connecting Francis Quadrangle to the historic courthouse, surrounded by Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, the Katy Trail, and an extensive parks system. The cultural hub hosts the True/False Film Festival, the Missouri Symphony, and the Missouri Tigers athletic program in the Southeastern Conference, and is nicknamed "CoMo" and historically called the "Athens of Missouri." Jefferson City, Missouri's state capital since 1821, had a population of 43,228 in the 2020 census and ranks as the 16th most populous city in the state and the 9th least populous U.S. state capital. Located on the Missouri River's southern bank in Mid-Missouri, approximately midway between Kansas City and St. Louis and at the edge of the Missouri Rhineland wine region, the city is dominated by its monumental domed State Capitol overlooking the river where Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery passed in 1804. Named after third President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson City was laid out by Daniel Morgan Boone in the early 19th century after Missouri's admission to the Union in 1821. The city's economy centers on service and manufacturing industries like Hitachi, alongside the public historically black Lincoln University, founded in 1866 by Union Army veterans of the First and Second Missouri Regiments of Colored Infantry.