Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, is the capital of Missouri, United States. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 census, ranking as the 15th most populous city in the state. It is then the county chair of Cole County and the principal city of the Jefferson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, the second-most-populous metropolitan Place in Mid-Missouri and the fifth-largest in the state. Most of the city is in Cole County, with a small northern section extending into Callaway County. Jefferson City is named for Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.

Jefferson City is located upon the northern edge of the Ozark Plateau on the southern side of the Missouri River in a region known as Mid-Missouri, that is vis-а-vis mid-way in the company of the state’s two large urban areas of Kansas City and St. Louis. It is 29 miles (47 km) south of Columbia, Missouri, and sits at the western edge of the Missouri Rhineland, one of the major wine-producing regions of the Midwest. The city is dominated by the domed Capitol, which rises from a bluff overlooking the Missouri River to the north; Lewis and Clark passed the bluff on their historic expedition upriver since Europeans conventional any concurrence there.

Many of Jefferson City’s primary employers are in bolster and manufacturing industries. Jefferson City is also home to Lincoln University, a public historically black land-grant academic circles founded in 1866 by the 62nd Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops with support from the 65th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops.

In pre-Columbian times, this region was home of an ancient people known solitary as the “Mound Builders”, being replaced by Osage Native Americans. In the late 17th century, frontiersmen started to inhabit the area, including Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, Robert de LaSalle, and Daniel Boone, with the latter having the greatest influence on the region. Daniel Boone’s son, Daniel Morgan Boone, would future lay out Jefferson City in the in advance 19th century.