Bell City, MO

Bell City is a city in northeastern Stoddard County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 464 residents. Bell City was founded as a sawmill town circa 1900, and lies at the foothills of Crowley's Ridge on Missouri Route 91. Dorothy Burton is the current mayor. Bell City's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Bell City's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. A post office called Bell City has been in operation since 1890. The community was named after brothers Gesper Albert and Ralford Stephen Bell, proprietors of a local sawmill. Bell City is located on the western edge of the lowland region of southeast Missouri.