Municipal · Missouri

City of Canton

Canton is a city in Lewis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,774 at the 2020 census. Canton is the home of Culver-Stockton College, a small liberal arts college affiliated with the Christian Church. It also had the oldest continuously operating ferry across the Mississippi River, which closed in April 2014. Four members of the United States House of Representatives have come from Canton, and are buried in the city's Forest Grove Cemetery. Canton is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 168966
FIPS state: 29
FIPS county: 111
FIPS place: 11134
Census record name: CITY OF CANTON
Mailing address: PO BOX 231, CANTON 63435