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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>
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>
==Geography==
Steelville is located in central Crawford County at the intersection of Missouri State Highways 8 and 19, about 14 miles east of [[St. James, Missouri|St. James]] and seven miles south-southeast of [[Cuba, Missouri|Cuba]]. Its exact coordinates are 37°58’07”N 91°21’19”W.
The Meramec River forms part of the city's northwestern boundary, with a small tributary stream, Yadkin Creek, flowing through its center. The rest of Steelville is dominated by uplands. It has a total land area of 2.42 square miles, and an average elevation of 755 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
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