Cedar City is a former incorporated city in southern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on the Missouri River floodplain across the river channel from Jefferson City and is near the interchange of U.S. Routes 54 and 63. [2] It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Cedar City was platted in 1866 and is named after the eastern redcedar tree. [3] David Kenney, owner of the Cedar City Land Company petitioned to have the community incorporated in 1870. [4] It existed as a city until 1989, when the city merged into Jefferson City.[ citation needed] The population of the city before the merger was reported as 427 in the 1980 Decennial Census.[ citation needed] Flooding of the Missouri River in 1993 inundated the entire community and virtually all the homeowners were bought out by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). [5] Most of the area of the former city now consists of parks and businesses. A post office called Cedar City has been in operation since 1870. [6]