Unionville (Missouri)

Unionville was founded in 1853, after lengthy bickering finally determined the borders and affiliation of Putnam County.

According to the 2010 census, the town had an area of ​​a couple of square miles (a little more than 5 square kilometers), and 1,865 people lived in it, including 844 households and 468 families. For comparison, in 2000, 2041 people lived here, although it is worth noting that over the past century the population almost regularly fluctuated in the range of 1800-2000 people. According to 2010 data, there were a little more than a thousand houses in the city. In terms of race, the vast majority (97.1%) were of the European race, African - Americans - 0.4%, Indians - 0.2%, Asians - 0.7%, other races - 0.3%, and Mestizos - 1.3 % Spaniards or Latinos accounted for 1.2% of the population. By gender composition, men and women accounted for 46.5% and 53.5%, respectively.

Crash Flight 11

On May 22, 1962, the largest plane crash in Missouri occurred near Unionville. Continental Airlines' Boeing 707 passenger plane was flying 11 from Chicago to Kansas City when it suddenly crashed in the air, after which the wreckage crashed to the ground ten kilometers north-northwest of Unionville, killing 45 people. The cause of the disaster was a suicide passenger attack, which, driven to despair due to debts, insured his life for large sums, and then carried a bomb on board. After flight 11 left the thunderstorm zone and passengers were allowed to unfasten, the suicide carried his bomb to the toilet and detonated it.

Currently, a memorial with the names of the victims of that tragedy has been erected in Unionville.