Missouri
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Boot Heel/SE
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 1385 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 3033 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 3449 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 3275 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 3416 | 35 | ||||||
| 2000 | 3227 | 73 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Bl. caller to St. L. radio station, November 21, 2005: They had a huge sundown sign, billboard. My father leased farmland near there and we lived there for three years, had a lot of trouble every time we went into town.