Springfield (Missouri)
Greene County Christian County
29-70000
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. The metropolitan area extends to a part also in the neighboring Christian County.
Springfield, also called "The Queen City of the Ozarks ", was founded in 1829 and covers an area of 191 km ². It counts 159 498 inhabitants ( 2010). The population density is about 841 inhabitants per km ².
Springfield is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield - Cape Girardeau and the RISS center Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center ( Močič ). In Springfield, the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, a prison hospital for inmates of U.S. federal prisons located.
Universities
- Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
- Baptist Bible College
- Central Bible College
- Drury University
- Evangel University
- Forest Institute of Professional Psychology
- Missouri State University
- Ozarks Technical Community College
- St. John's College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Southwest Baptist University
- Vatterott College
- Everest College
- Cox College
- Bryan College
Sons and daughters of the town ( in chronological order )
- Roscoe C. Patterson (1876-1954), politician
- George Hively, (1889-1950), screenwriter and film editor
- Jimmie Angel (1899-1956), pilot
- Boots Faye (1923-1999), country singer
- Speedy West (1924-2003), country musician
- Jim Lowe (* 1927), singer
- Kathleen Turner (born 1954 ), actress
- Payne Stewart (1957-1999), former golf professional
- Janet Lynn Kavandi ( born 1959 ), astronaut
- Brad Pitt ( b. 1963 ), actor
- Matt Blunt, (* 1970), politician and Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009
- Lucas Grabeel ( born 1984 ), actor
- Anthony Tolliver ( born 1985 ), basketball player
- Nick Benson (* 1994), actor
- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (* 2004), Volume
Traffic
Springfield is located off Interstate 44 between St. Louis and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway operates a major railway junction in Springfield. Entering or leaving the city daily More than 65 freight trains. Passenger trains no longer in Springfield since 1967.
The regional Springfield -Branson National Airport has around 700,000 passengers annually.