Green City, MO

Green City is a city in northeast Sullivan County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 602 residents. Green City traces its beginnings to April, 1880 when Sullivan County farmer Henry Pfeiffer commissioned surveyor Thomas J. Dockery to lay out the town in what had previously been a cornfield. May 25, 1885 — Green City College is established. A large three-story brick building was constructed at a cost of $4,500. The through line in Green City is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Green City makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. The community is located on Missouri Route 129 one half mile north of Missouri Route 6 and ten miles northeast of Milan. Yellow Creek flows past two miles to the west and the Union Ridge Conservation Area on Spring Creek is two miles to the northeast.