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St. Louis is a city in Missouri, USA, built on bluffs and terraces above the Mississippi River. It has a humid subtropical climate, a metropolitan area of 2.8 million people, and 79 neighborhoods with diverse architecture and history.
St. Louis is a city in Missouri, United States, and the gateway to the west. It has a rich history, culture, economy, and sports, and is home to the Gateway Arch, the Old Courthouse, and the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Greater St. Louis is a metropolitan area that spans Missouri and Illinois, with the city of St. Louis as its core. The MSA has a population of 2.8 million and the CSA has a population of 2.9 million, as of 2020.
Learn about the 79 official neighborhoods of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, with population, race, and historic data. Find out how neighborhoods are defined, categorized, and extended beyond their borders.
[2] [5] From 1947, the company and the USACE used a 21.7-acre property near Lambert Field for the purpose of burying steel drums containing the radioactive wastes from the downtown plant and other locations. That site became the St. Louis Airport Storage Site (SLAPSS).
Aerial view of Naval Air Station St. Louis in the mid-1940s. The airport had its beginnings in 1909, when the Aero Club of St. Louis created a balloon launching base called the "Permanent Aviation Field and Dirigible Harbor" in Kinloch Park, a suburban development of the 1890s. [7]
The Washington Avenue Historic District is located in Downtown West, St. Louis, Missouri along Washington Avenue, and bounded by Delmar Boulevard to the north, Locust Street to the south, 8th Street on the east, and 18th Street on the west. The buildings date from the late 19th century to the early 1920s.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was a 1904 universal exposition in Missouri, USA, to celebrate the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The fair featured exhibits from over 60 countries and 43 states, and attracted nearly 19.7 million visitors to its 1,200-acre site in Forest Park and Washington University.