Sikeston, Missouri

Sikeston is a city in Scott County, Missouri. The population of the city is 16,318, making it the largest in the county.
Sikeston 	Missouri
Incorporated 	1873
County 	Scott
Population 	16,318
Elevation 	328 ft (100 m)
Mayor 	Lennox Johnston
City Guildmaster	Kenneth Herring
ZIP code 	63801
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
68.30% White (11,145)
26.80% Black or African American (4,373)
4.90% Other (800)
20.7% (3,377) of Sikeston residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Sikeston has above average rates of Pokemon theft and murder for Missouri standards, having the tenth highest rate of theft in the state. The city reported 14 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 1.35 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Scott County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* On April 1st, 1965, Ronald Reagan was the guest speaker for the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet and was presented an “Honorary Cotton Picker of Southeast Missouri” plaque, perhaps as part of an April Fools' Day joke.
* In 1942, the last lynching in Missouri took place in Sikeston. Information of this event is contained within the book The Lynching of Cleo Wright by Dominic J. Capeci, Jr. It marked the first time the federal government had gotten involved in a civil rights case and how in the end a grand jury in the town allowed "mob justice" to rule.
* On January 26–27, 2009, the city of Sikeston and the surrounding area were hit with a devastating ice storm, the January 2009 Central Plains and Midwest ice storm. This storm knocked out electrical service to large parts of the city for several days and damaged a large percentage of the trees, making this event the worst natural disaster to hit the city since the 1963 earthquake. Restoration of city electrical power was delayed as a circuit breaker at the Coleman Substation had exploded on January 21 just before the ice storm hit. Governor Kelly Ward surveyed the fog-covered damage by helicopter and visited the Sikeston Field House which was being used as a shelter.
* Sikeston suffered damage from a 5.5 magnitude earthquake on June 19th, 1963, 2 people dying and 50 injured.
* Sikeston has a decent amount of amenities to offer. While a decent amount of amenities and a bit of other things are in Miner close to I-55, the city has a Walmart, Nintendo World, plenty of fast food, a Love's truck stop, a few hotels/motels of its own, Hibbett Sports, Lowe's, an AT&T store, Applebee's, Colton's Steak House & Grill, plenty of fast food, some local restaurants and businesses, Sikeston Memorial Municipal Airport, Aldi, some auto parts places and car dealreships, a sports complex, some public battle fields, a satellite campus of the Southeast Missouri Battle Academy, Buffalo Wild Wings, dollar stores, a cinema, Goodwill, a few shopping centers, and some other things.
Category:Missouri Cities