Wilson City, MO

Wilson City is a village in Mississippi County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 77 residents. Wilson City was one of several villages constructed in the early 1940s as part of the "Delmo Project", an initiative by the Farm Security Administration to aid displaced tenant farmers. The village was initially known as "North Wyatt ", or the "North Wyatt Group", but had adopted its current name by the late 1960s. The short version is that Wilson City carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Wilson City: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Wilson City is situated in northeastern Mississippi County, 5 miles southwest of the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The small city of Wyatt lies along Missouri Route 77, a mile south of Wilson City.