Moberly is a city in Randolph County, Missouri, United States.

In 1860, the C.& R. had planned a road west to Brunswick from this point on the North Mo.

The Chariton and Randolph R. R. named its proposed junction for William Moberly, head of the railroad, and offered free land to residents of once nearby Allen to settle here.

Patrick Lynch, who alone accepted, was given two lots by the North Missouri after the Civil War for holding the site without "the loss of a life or a house."

Transportation facilities brought industrial growth and the development of the soil, fire clay, and coal resources of the area.

Moberly lies in a glacial plains area in a county organized, 1829, and names for John Randolph of Roanoke, Va.

William Fort boiled salt at a spring near Huntsville in 1820s/ The Bee Trace, a pioneer trail, ran along the Grand Divide (the high point in The Grand Prairie) between the Missouri and Mississippi through the county.

The Iowa, Sac, and Fox tribes gave up claims to the region, 1824.

At Huntsville, county seat, since 1831, a plank road was built to Glasgow, 1854, and the 1855-82 Mt.

World War II Gen. Omar N. Bradley, first Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and commander of the largest Army in United States history was born in nearby Clark, but grew up in Moberly and graduated from Moberly High School.

Moberly is the home of novelist Elizabeth Seifert Gasparotti and birthplace of writer Jack Conroy.

The World War II-era US Navy frigate USS Moberly (PF-63) was named for the town.

The ship participated mostly in convoy escort, earning a battle star for her assistance in sinking a German submarine, U-853.

The same year that the Wabash Railroad, St. Louis & Pacific Railway shops were finished in Moberly,[11][12] the city entered a charter into state record and incorporated.

The council consists of five members elected for three-year terms and one city counselor who drafts ordinances and acts as legal counsel.

[15] The Moberly Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Randolph County.

The 2020 United States census[21] counted 13,783 people, 4,708 households, and 2,968 families in Moberly.

Of all households, 32.8% consisted of individuals and 15.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

33.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

33.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

When U.S. 63 was re-routed in the mid-1960s Highway 22 was truncated to its current end at U.S. 63 near Sturgeon, MO.

Norfolk Southern also runs south between Moberly and St. Louis, Missouri (via Centralia and Mexico, MO) and points on.

Norfolk Southern used to have a line that ran north from Moberly to Albia, Iowa, but it was abandoned in the spring of 1992.

The Centerville, Iowa-owned Appanoose County Community Railroad currently operates the section from Moulton to Albia, Iowa.

The Kwix Kres Kirk radio station operates from downtown.