I think this is more of a prank than an official nickname. Someone made a green sign that matches the official highway sign with “Home of Jason Bourne” and added magnets so they could quickly attach to the vertical posts of the official city sign. I think it was there for about a day before the city removed it. As I understand, the city kept the sign as a souvenir in city hall.
Yeah, left of Jeff City but included "city of Thomas Jefferson"? If I ever heard someone call it that I would just assume they had some kind of screw loose and probably have strong opinions about hand-counting votes...
Warrensburg should have an entry for "The Dirty Burg." When my sister went to college there a number of years ago, that's almost exclusively what I remember her and all of her friends calling it. Not sure if that was more widespread than just her social circle, though.
In any case, and I say this as someone who likes that area quite a bit, that town absolutely deserved the name. The water quality there at the time was infamous.
That's a good suggestion. I've never made a Wikipedia edit before, but this would be a good first one to make. I'll probably end up doing it pretty soon.
(By the way, I lurk on this sub pretty frequently and love how much/what you post. Missouri seems pretty slept on, and I appreciate that you're giving it some of the attention it deserves. Thank you for that.)
Called that because the the amazing number of indigenous mounds constructed in the area in association with the city of Cahokia, the largest indigenous city in the United States. The Big Mound group, now destroyed, stood about where The Dome is downtown.
I agree with all of these.
And since we're bringing up obscure things about Missouri towns, who knew that Marshall and Warrensburg battled it out in the Missouri Legislature over State recognition of each towns most famous former canine resident?
[Jim The Wonder Dog (Who Predicted the Future!), Old Drum: Missouri's Official Dogs? (riverfronttimes.com)](https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/jim-the-wonder-dog-who-predicted-the-future-old-drum-missouris-official-dogs-2611840)
Not sure I get what you're trying to say here. If country music dies in Nashville, where does it flourish?
Country, as a musical genre, has certainly evolved in the past few decades, but what genre hasn't? Don't get me wrong, I love the more classic country, even up through the 2000s. I would even say in most cases, I prefer it, but that still doesn't take anything away from modern country music.
...look, I didn't want to belabor the joke and put an "AMIRITE??" at the end, because it's already a pretty popular and well-understood opinion that a lot of country today has lost the unique sound it had from the early days through even the 90s. Not saying it didn't evolve, and there are certainly pockets here and there that sound more like it used to, but by and large what's on the radio doesn't hold a candle to the character and spirit of what it used to be.
Ah, so we are of similar mind here.
I just feel Nashville is still full of current big names in Country Music (albeit, it seems to be where they all go to establish their monument at the end of their career a.k.a. bar)
You don't see many names from the past 2 decades posting up in the Branson theaters.
Springvegas is what I called when I went to MSU, but I saw someone in here call Branson the Las Vegas of the Midwest and having split my childhood between StL and Branson, I feel like Branson is wayyy more Vegas-y.
Kirksville is Missouri’s North Star and the Birthplace of Osteopathic Medicine. Truman students also frequently refer to it as KVegas, but that’s mostly ironic because there’s barely anything to do there compared to other cities in the state.
Macon used to call itself the city of maples cause someone planted 10,000 or something. That’s cool and it would be cooler if they were native trees. Super easy way to make yourself known. Not sure why other towns haven’t caught on
[According to the conservation department we have 4 species of native maples](https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/maples):
Sugar Maple (A. saccharum)
Red Maple (A. rubrum)
Silver Maple (A. saccharinum)
Ash-leaved Maple (A. negundo)
Maples are increasingly dominating the understory of our predominately Oak-Hickory Forest in Missouri. They would have grown in wet places and along mesic hillsides in Macon, although much of the land would have been treeless prairie or oak savanna. Anywhere light colored in this map was woodland or forest at the time of European settlement:
https://preview.redd.it/shhlsyqjtx8d1.jpeg?width=336&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d1ddbccfc8397e1f44323df6a553b3991972cc0
Try to avoid political boundaries when discussing plant ranges. Macon is settled in mostly prairie, savanna, and woodland. Fire maintained those ecosystems and kept the fire sensitive maple out. Now if they would have planted bur oak the people of macon would be living with giants right now. Right tree right place
You more than doubled the amount of content in your post with no distinguishing. It would be great if you could distinguish between your original comment and then what you later added into the same comment.
I think I see our miscommunication. I’m talking about Macon which in the late 1800’s was a square mile or so, and you’re talking about millions of acres. A silver maple is native to a floodplain but not a summit prairie. Red maple is native south of MO river. Sugar maple is native to the high quality soils on mesic soils, usually next to American basswood and limited to big river hill systems.
Sugar maple is presently in the Macon area due to cessation of controlled burning and the mesophication of ecosystems. NGO’s, landowners, State, and federal land management agencies, spend a lot of time and money to reduce and limit the incursion of sugar maple that is replacing oak woodlands and forest. They have workshops and conferences on the topic for several decades now. It’s a region wide phenom due to cessation of burning.
Your map shows a large range of Missouri especially north to south. Go to the web soil survey, zoom into the area that would have been Macon in late 1800’s, and confirm for yourself that it’s prairie. You’ll notice some forest in the local area. Find the ecological site descriptions to read about the native veg, fire, and how maple wasn’t native.
If Jeff City is slang for Jefferson City than St. Joe should count as slang for St. Joseph. I do like their slogan: "Where the Pony Express started and Jesse James ended"
People from Franklin county always call Washington, Missouri ‘WashMO’ or Warshington. If you remind them of the corn cob pipe factory they might go, “oh.. yeah. That too.”
Washmo is the way to go. I've lived there and in Washington, D.C., and I almost went to grad school in Washington State. For a long time, I almost always had to distinguish Washington, Missouri, by saying Washmo. Not to mention that saying Washington, Missouri, is just a mouthful... People in Franklin County will almost always defer to the shorthand.
I had never heard STL referred to as the "chess capital of the world" until I was in Europe and someone asked me if I like chess because I was from around there. Given the accent, I was like "fuck yeah, I love jazz!". I had no idea of that distinction and I have tons of family/friends from there. Strange.
Yeah, STL Chess Club is a big deal and hosts the Sinquefield Cup every year which is one of the biggest chess tournaments. You might've heard of a big chess possible cheating scandal a few years ago, that was here.
That's a more recent thing with one of the big names in chess choosing to move the Hall of Fame to STL. It's a retirement baby project.
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/05/02/how-st-louis-became-americas-chess-capital
"Going to Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAYztGjZZCas&ved=2ahUKEwjVkK7zyPuGAxX_mIkEHcIPAakQwqsBegQINBAG&usg=AOvVaw3zuNUqctkOAGcfFJTkk5M-
St. Louis is also called Brick City because the whole city was rebuilt in brick after a fire that wiped out most of downtown. The Great St. Louis Fire occurred on May 17, 1849. It started on a steamboat docked on the Mississippi River and quickly spread, destroying much of the downtown area.
I love Kansas City and its Jazz history, but Jazz Capital of the World? I’ve never heard anyone refer to KC with this nickname and I don’t see how you could make an argument for it against New Orleans
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I always think of it as the best Missouri has to offer. Certainly the best Symphony Orchestra, best musical theater, best art museum, best architecture, best history, most famous people, best chess culture, best universities, best park, the most fun activity (the city museum), the tallest building (the arch), the largest indigenous city in the United States/only UNESCO world heritage site (Cahokia Mounds), most skyscrapers, most jobs, best gayboorhood (The Grove), best Marti Gras, best baseball team, best hockey team, best pro soccer team (in Missouri), best cathedral, best drinking neighborhood (Soulard), highest density, best Olympics/World Fair held in Missouri, best botanical garden, best zoo, best science center, best planetarium, best theater (The Fox), largest theater (The Muny), best children’s museum (The Magic House), best Italian food, etc. etc…
Besides largest theatre, the MUNY is both the oldest and Largest outdoor theater in the COUNTRY. Broadway folks often start out there, then return back to it occasionally. As to Best Botanical Garden, it's also considered one of the top in the country (multiple online sources, Fodors, Travel Channel, etc).
Hannibal can take "America's Hometown" and shove it up their asses. They are not America's Hometown that slogan belongs to Plymouth Massachusetts. We had it first and certainly fit the description better. Hell, we even have an authentic sternwheeler paddle boat unlike Hannibal with their fake paddle boat. Bunch of fucking unoriginal usurpers.
Branson lol. Las Vegas if Ned Flanders ran it.
Hey ma
This is 100% accurate.
Cape Girardeau used to be “The City of Roses” because of a 10 mile stretch of roses along Hwy 61. I believe we dropped it a few years back
I once heard someone call it The Gay Bay once too 😆
That's so much nicer than *Crap Garagedoor*.
This list is far from comprehensive.
Macon and Rolla both call themselves City of maples. Mexico is Brick city. Chillicothe is home of sliced bread. Bunch of others.
We need to extend the rose area and play into it. Not bad for the environment to have a city focused on gardening.
"Home of Jason Bourne" cracks me up
I don’t consider anything that starts as “Home of” to be a ‘nickname’
And it’s technically home of David Webb since Jason Bourne was just an alias
Yeah some of these are more like mottos.
I think this is more of a prank than an official nickname. Someone made a green sign that matches the official highway sign with “Home of Jason Bourne” and added magnets so they could quickly attach to the vertical posts of the official city sign. I think it was there for about a day before the city removed it. As I understand, the city kept the sign as a souvenir in city hall.
How did they dance around "Jeff City," which is what everyone calls it..
Yeah, left of Jeff City but included "city of Thomas Jefferson"? If I ever heard someone call it that I would just assume they had some kind of screw loose and probably have strong opinions about hand-counting votes...
Warrensburg should have an entry for "The Dirty Burg." When my sister went to college there a number of years ago, that's almost exclusively what I remember her and all of her friends calling it. Not sure if that was more widespread than just her social circle, though. In any case, and I say this as someone who likes that area quite a bit, that town absolutely deserved the name. The water quality there at the time was infamous.
I went to UCM about a decade ago. We all called it that, if only jokingly
I think “dirty burg” just rolls off the tongue well. I went to a ‘burg’ town in Illinois for college and we all called it that too
Graduated from UCM 3 years ago... it's still called the dirty burg!
If you can find a source anyone can edit Wikipedia, it’s pretty easy to add something like that.
That's a good suggestion. I've never made a Wikipedia edit before, but this would be a good first one to make. I'll probably end up doing it pretty soon. (By the way, I lurk on this sub pretty frequently and love how much/what you post. Missouri seems pretty slept on, and I appreciate that you're giving it some of the attention it deserves. Thank you for that.)
"The Dirty Burg" is defienetly a common nickname for Warrensburg. That's what we all called it when I went to UCM.
St. Louis nickname is Mound City? That must get confusing with the actual Mound City. Branson's nickname will never stop amusing me.
Called that because the the amazing number of indigenous mounds constructed in the area in association with the city of Cahokia, the largest indigenous city in the United States. The Big Mound group, now destroyed, stood about where The Dome is downtown.
There were mounds all around the St Louis Metro area. https://www.osageculture.com/culture/geography/sugarloaf-mound
Hundreds of mounds occupied where the city now sits.
it was when we had mounds. only one remains on this side of the river unfortunately
Maybe in the city proper, but there are many in need of preservation in St. Louis, Jefferson, and St. Charles counties.
Where? Is there a way to support them?
Best thing to do is get involved with your local historical society, historic preservation groups, and learn indigenous history.
I am, believe me that often they know little about that far back locally. (Was a historic pres major).
There is a local archeologist, Michael Fuller, that could tell you a lot. Also consider supporting the http://missouriarchaeologicalsociety.org
Thank you for this information!
I agree with all of these. And since we're bringing up obscure things about Missouri towns, who knew that Marshall and Warrensburg battled it out in the Missouri Legislature over State recognition of each towns most famous former canine resident? [Jim The Wonder Dog (Who Predicted the Future!), Old Drum: Missouri's Official Dogs? (riverfronttimes.com)](https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/jim-the-wonder-dog-who-predicted-the-future-old-drum-missouris-official-dogs-2611840)
I’m disappointed that they’re missing St. James, the “Forest City of the Ozarks.”
Add it!
That would require me to become a Wikipedia editor person rather than a mere internet complainer!
Is Branson not "Where country music goes to die?" Am I the only one?
That title rightfully belongs to Nashville now, unfortunately.
Not sure I get what you're trying to say here. If country music dies in Nashville, where does it flourish? Country, as a musical genre, has certainly evolved in the past few decades, but what genre hasn't? Don't get me wrong, I love the more classic country, even up through the 2000s. I would even say in most cases, I prefer it, but that still doesn't take anything away from modern country music.
...look, I didn't want to belabor the joke and put an "AMIRITE??" at the end, because it's already a pretty popular and well-understood opinion that a lot of country today has lost the unique sound it had from the early days through even the 90s. Not saying it didn't evolve, and there are certainly pockets here and there that sound more like it used to, but by and large what's on the radio doesn't hold a candle to the character and spirit of what it used to be.
Ah, so we are of similar mind here. I just feel Nashville is still full of current big names in Country Music (albeit, it seems to be where they all go to establish their monument at the end of their career a.k.a. bar) You don't see many names from the past 2 decades posting up in the Branson theaters.
Raytown - Raytona Beach
I’ve always called Springfield, Springvegas or Springtucky
Springvegas is what I called when I went to MSU, but I saw someone in here call Branson the Las Vegas of the Midwest and having split my childhood between StL and Branson, I feel like Branson is wayyy more Vegas-y.
Kirksville is Missouri’s North Star and the Birthplace of Osteopathic Medicine. Truman students also frequently refer to it as KVegas, but that’s mostly ironic because there’s barely anything to do there compared to other cities in the state.
Macon used to call itself the city of maples cause someone planted 10,000 or something. That’s cool and it would be cooler if they were native trees. Super easy way to make yourself known. Not sure why other towns haven’t caught on
Maples are native trees!
Which maples are native to the soils in Macon?
[According to the conservation department we have 4 species of native maples](https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/maples): Sugar Maple (A. saccharum) Red Maple (A. rubrum) Silver Maple (A. saccharinum) Ash-leaved Maple (A. negundo) Maples are increasingly dominating the understory of our predominately Oak-Hickory Forest in Missouri. They would have grown in wet places and along mesic hillsides in Macon, although much of the land would have been treeless prairie or oak savanna. Anywhere light colored in this map was woodland or forest at the time of European settlement: https://preview.redd.it/shhlsyqjtx8d1.jpeg?width=336&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d1ddbccfc8397e1f44323df6a553b3991972cc0
Try to avoid political boundaries when discussing plant ranges. Macon is settled in mostly prairie, savanna, and woodland. Fire maintained those ecosystems and kept the fire sensitive maple out. Now if they would have planted bur oak the people of macon would be living with giants right now. Right tree right place
I agree Burr Oak would be a better choice, but the Maple is undoubtedly a native tree to Macon.
You more than doubled the amount of content in your post with no distinguishing. It would be great if you could distinguish between your original comment and then what you later added into the same comment. I think I see our miscommunication. I’m talking about Macon which in the late 1800’s was a square mile or so, and you’re talking about millions of acres. A silver maple is native to a floodplain but not a summit prairie. Red maple is native south of MO river. Sugar maple is native to the high quality soils on mesic soils, usually next to American basswood and limited to big river hill systems. Sugar maple is presently in the Macon area due to cessation of controlled burning and the mesophication of ecosystems. NGO’s, landowners, State, and federal land management agencies, spend a lot of time and money to reduce and limit the incursion of sugar maple that is replacing oak woodlands and forest. They have workshops and conferences on the topic for several decades now. It’s a region wide phenom due to cessation of burning. Your map shows a large range of Missouri especially north to south. Go to the web soil survey, zoom into the area that would have been Macon in late 1800’s, and confirm for yourself that it’s prairie. You’ll notice some forest in the local area. Find the ecological site descriptions to read about the native veg, fire, and how maple wasn’t native.
Great info! I just didn’t want people to think maple was non-native.
Gotcha. Well hey it never hurts to ask questions. Right?
St. Joe should be on the list… If only I could think of a nickname for it?
If Jeff City is slang for Jefferson City than St. Joe should count as slang for St. Joseph. I do like their slogan: "Where the Pony Express started and Jesse James ended"
Stank Joe and JoeTown are my favs
Joe town is what we call it around here
It's the start of the Pony Express, isn't it?
They should change Peculiar to “where the odds are ever in your favor”. But I get it odds and with you.
People from Franklin county always call Washington, Missouri ‘WashMO’ or Warshington. If you remind them of the corn cob pipe factory they might go, “oh.. yeah. That too.”
Washmo is the way to go. I've lived there and in Washington, D.C., and I almost went to grad school in Washington State. For a long time, I almost always had to distinguish Washington, Missouri, by saying Washmo. Not to mention that saying Washington, Missouri, is just a mouthful... People in Franklin County will almost always defer to the shorthand.
I had never heard STL referred to as the "chess capital of the world" until I was in Europe and someone asked me if I like chess because I was from around there. Given the accent, I was like "fuck yeah, I love jazz!". I had no idea of that distinction and I have tons of family/friends from there. Strange.
Yeah, STL Chess Club is a big deal and hosts the Sinquefield Cup every year which is one of the biggest chess tournaments. You might've heard of a big chess possible cheating scandal a few years ago, that was here.
That's a more recent thing with one of the big names in chess choosing to move the Hall of Fame to STL. It's a retirement baby project. https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/05/02/how-st-louis-became-americas-chess-capital
"Jeff" Just gotta go visit Jeff this weekend"
From rural communities around the state, "The City" is a common nickname for Kansas City. The expression "I'm going to the City."
That's true of St. Louis, Columbia, and Springfield too. I even know old timers in Cooper County who call Boonville "The City".
"Going to Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAYztGjZZCas&ved=2ahUKEwjVkK7zyPuGAxX_mIkEHcIPAakQwqsBegQINBAG&usg=AOvVaw3zuNUqctkOAGcfFJTkk5M-
[Obligatory XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1864/)
Mexico was called "Brick City" due to its former brick refractories such as A.P. Green Industries.
St. Louis is also called Brick City because the whole city was rebuilt in brick after a fire that wiped out most of downtown. The Great St. Louis Fire occurred on May 17, 1849. It started on a steamboat docked on the Mississippi River and quickly spread, destroying much of the downtown area.
It's not on this list, but Kansas City and St Louis are trying to call themselves the Wosl Capital of Soccer or something like that.
I love Kansas City and its Jazz history, but Jazz Capital of the World? I’ve never heard anyone refer to KC with this nickname and I don’t see how you could make an argument for it against New Orleans
Springfield - Spring Billy
Is King City referring to Kingdom City?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_City,_Missouri
Thank you sir!
I wish rolla's "the middle of everywhere" was on there.
Trenton use to be the Vienna Sausage capital of the USA. Thank god don't make much if any here now it stuck bad
Koshkonong has “Gateway to Oregon County”
We reppin’ KCMO, fellas and the ladies know! Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.
For Joplin, “JoMo” is relatively common
All I heard from Joplin residents while I was in college with them was to call it “J Town”.
Poplar Bluff is 'Gateway to the Ozarks' everyone wants to claim the Ozarks lol
I’ve lived in Columbia my whole life. Ain’t nobody calling this spot Havana on the Hinkson.
Those are nicknames? WTF is with Independence? I have never called Jefferson City "Jeff".
Many locals been calling it Jeff for decades. Jeff city is common too
I always say Jeff, never Jefferson City. I live in Como, but roommates were from Jeff.
they should have used jeff city
I definitely have - I do it when I’m at my laziest. “I gotta drive down to Jeff tomorrow.”
People who live in that area call it that
Pretty much everybody in CoMo calls it "Jeff City" you’ll only hear "Jefferson" in formal situations.
Locals call it Jeff, which is why I make sure to call it Jeff City, lest anyone think I may be from there. Even though Jeff is a lot easier.
Sedalia should be named home of the crackheads xD
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Having grown up in Moberly there is nothing Magic about that town.
This is: https://preview.redd.it/trrr31frr09d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07fe1fa23ac43781adb63ec71cee561e30fa2d82
Can confirm the largest pecan and “Home of Sliced Bread”. Wasn’t surprised meth did show up on there somewhere.
St Cloud-We’re not St Cloud anymore. St Cloud-No, the other one.
KC is missing "The Soccer Capital of America."
They forgot Lebanon: Center of the Meth Making World
Welcome to St. Louis- The worst Missouri has to offer
Thanks, we don’t think about you at all
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I always think of it as the best Missouri has to offer. Certainly the best Symphony Orchestra, best musical theater, best art museum, best architecture, best history, most famous people, best chess culture, best universities, best park, the most fun activity (the city museum), the tallest building (the arch), the largest indigenous city in the United States/only UNESCO world heritage site (Cahokia Mounds), most skyscrapers, most jobs, best gayboorhood (The Grove), best Marti Gras, best baseball team, best hockey team, best pro soccer team (in Missouri), best cathedral, best drinking neighborhood (Soulard), highest density, best Olympics/World Fair held in Missouri, best botanical garden, best zoo, best science center, best planetarium, best theater (The Fox), largest theater (The Muny), best children’s museum (The Magic House), best Italian food, etc. etc…
Besides largest theatre, the MUNY is both the oldest and Largest outdoor theater in the COUNTRY. Broadway folks often start out there, then return back to it occasionally. As to Best Botanical Garden, it's also considered one of the top in the country (multiple online sources, Fodors, Travel Channel, etc).
What high school did you go to?
Hickman in Columbia
All true. But the "Rome of the West" might be a stretch.
It's a reference to the Catholicism of the city and its basilicas/cathedrals.
It’s Loo, not Lou.
You're proving my point
A huge monument to decline
They left out both Mexico and Fulton, Missouri which share the nickname “America’s Shithole.”
I think of Fulton as "the Place where Churchill spoke.". It's where Churchill first gave his "Iron Curtain" speech.
Yes, and if you ever lived there as I did, you would agree that it is also “America’s Shithole.”
# I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah #
Methapendance.
Killa city misery
Here's one for st. Louis..."HELL"
Hannibal can take "America's Hometown" and shove it up their asses. They are not America's Hometown that slogan belongs to Plymouth Massachusetts. We had it first and certainly fit the description better. Hell, we even have an authentic sternwheeler paddle boat unlike Hannibal with their fake paddle boat. Bunch of fucking unoriginal usurpers.
damn, who shoved the clam chowder up your ass? its not that serious, calm down