St Louis Facts Table of Contents Gateway to the West 5 Name Us We're Famous 8 Visit THIS Exhibit One of the Coolest Places I've Ever Seen in My Entire Life 24 The Captains Return or Was It Timeline Glossary Founded 1764 Land area 66 2 square miles 171 5 square kilometers Elevation 488 8 ft above sea level 149 meters above sea level Previous name None Population City of St Louis 318 416 County of St Louis 1 000 438 58th largest city in U S Average Daytime Temperatures winter 35 degrees Fahrenheit 1 6 degrees Celsius spring 72 degrees Fahrenheit 22 degrees Celsius summer 80 degrees Fahrenheit 26 6 degrees Celsius fall 59 degrees Fahrenheit 15 degrees Celsius ở Index w Ethnic Diversity White alone 47 1 2015 African American 46 9 American Indian and Alaska Native 3 Asian 3 3 Hispanic or Latino 3 9 a Show What You Know Websites to Visit w About the Author City Nicknames Mound City and the Gateway to the West Number of Annual Visitors 25 9 million Missouri United States St Louis
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Gateway to the West Look out Where is that school bus going Why is that gigantic EYEBALL staring at you How tall is that ENORMOUS arch and how do you get to the top Are you ready to explore all this and more Welcome to St Louis Missouri Located in the middle of the country St Louis is on the eastern side of Missouri and alongside the mighty Mississippi River People here are called Saint Louisans and the city is called the Gateway to the West How did St Louis get its nickname We can thank the third president of the United States for that St Louis Notes Long before the U S Was formed two French fur traders set up a trading post along the Mississippi River In 1764 they began building St Louis naming the city after a famous French King IX Louis 5
