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'''Steelville''' is a city in [[Crawford County, Missouri|Crawford County]], [[Missouri]], of which it is the county seat. It had a population of 1,642 at the 2010 census.
'''Steelville''' is a city in [[Crawford County, Missouri|Crawford County]], [[Missouri]], of which it is the county seat. It had a population of 1,642 at the 2010 census.
==History==
The first notable residents in the Steelville area were William Britton, a local gristmill operator, and James Steel, owner of a trading post and the namesake of the future town (its name has nothing to do with the production of [[steel]]). Despite being centrally located in the new Crawford County after its formation in 1829, the site might not have become the county seat, except that the commissioners initially chosen to establish the seat neglected to do so, and it was not until 1835 that a new commission took the task seriously.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n49/mode/2up How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named (1916)]</ref> Steel, briefly a member of the commission, sold 40 acres of land he owned near the store for the laying out of a town, which was promptly named in his honor.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/crawford-county</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]