Mokane, MO

Mokane is a small city in southern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 188 residents. Mokane is part of the Jefferson City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The settlement was first named Smith's Landing, after Thomas Smith, who settled there around 1818, and is said to be the second- or third-oldest town in Callaway County. That mix gives Mokane a clear local shape within Missouri, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The settlement took on the name Saint Aubert around the time a post office was built there in 1849. Mokane is located on the north side of the Missouri River valley along Missouri Route 94 between Tebbetts to the southwest and Steedman to the northeast. Fulton lies about twelve miles to the north along Missouri Route C.