MU History and Local History

Live and archived meeting video. City Council meetings take place Monday evenings, every two weeks. Archived and transcripted video is available back to 2009.

Maps showing land zoning, owner information and tax history of land parcels in Boone County, including Columbia.

To access city records from before 1999, you must contact the City Clerk.

Also contains agendas (outline of what will be covered in a meeting) and video for meetings.

The Boone County Commission deals with Boone County outside of Columbia. Minutes are searchable and browsable back to 1994.

The County Clerk is our local elections office. Register to vote through this office.

Certain older city and county records are kept at the State Archives. This sheet details the years and offices with records on microfilm at the State Archives. Columbia City Council holdings are from May 1851 through April 1925.

Compilation of inventories of local government records identified as having permanent or enduring value and housed primarily in county and municipal offices, but includes some libraries, museums, and historical and genealogical societies that maintain government records. Not all Missouri offices have been inventoried.