Defiance, Missouri

Defiance
Unincorporated community
Defiance

Location within the state of Missouri

Coordinates: 38°37′56″N 90°46′42″W / 38.63222°N 90.77833°W / 38.63222; -90.77833Coordinates: 38°37′56″N 90°46′42″W / 38.63222°N 90.77833°W / 38.63222; -90.77833
Country United States
State Missouri
County Saint Charles
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes 63341

Defiance is an unincorporated community in Saint Charles County, Missouri.

Situation

The Katy Trail State Park runs through Defiance near the Missouri River. This was the final home of frontiersman Daniel Boone, who settled in the Femme Osage Valley in 1799 after receiving a Spanish land grant. The hamlet was not named during Boone's life. Its population in 2000 was 3,154.

Name

It was named in the late 1800s when the Katy Railroad arrived. Initially the town was to be called Parsons for the landowner. Because there was already a Parsons, Kansas on the Katy line, settlers considered other names, including Missouriton and Bluff City, before deciding on Defiance because of the hamlet's defiance of rival Matson, Missouri to get a station on the line.[1]

Characteristics

From here west to Marthasville are numerous wineries; SH 94 is sometimes called the "Missouri Weinstrasse". The area is part of the Missouri Rhineland, where vineyards are cultivated on both sides of the Missouri River. Started originally by German immigrants, the wine industry also was shaped by later Italian immigrants.

References in Pop Culture

Defiance was used as the name for the new settlement on top of the ruins of Saint Louis, Missouri in the television series of the same name. The series was produced by Universal Cable Productions, in transmedia collaboration with Trion Worlds who have released an MMORPG video game of the same name that is tied in to the series world and mythology (but did not take place in the titular city).[2]

See also

Missouri Rhineland

Defiance (TV series)

Defiance (video game)

References

  1. ↑ "The History of How Defiance Missouri Got Its Name", St. Charles Banner News, May 10, 1971
  2. ↑ Munn, Patrick (February 21, 2012). "Exclusive: Details On Syfy's New Series Defiance". TVWise. Retrieved February 22, 2012.


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