Piedmont is a city in northwestern Wayne County in Southeast Missouri, United States.

[5] The community derives its name from the French pied and mont, meaning "foot" and "mountain" respectively.

Among the major first ancestries reported in Piedmont were 21.4% American, 11.6% German, 11.3% Irish, 8.6% English, 3.7% Dutch, and 2.5% French.

The Clearwater R-I School District serves the educational needs of most of the city's residents and nearby throughout most of western Wayne County.

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (CST) at Piedmont City Hall, 115 W. Green Street.

Piedmont culture flourishes, with the hydrants, murals and windows painted around every corner.

Since 1977, Piedmont has hosted an Ozark Heritage Fall Festival annually in mid-October, which showcases local Musicians, as well as traditional Ozark culture and handicrafts, and is one of the highest attended in the surrounding region with tens of hundreds flocking for a single October weekend.

[15][16] In August of 2023, to mark the 50th anniversary of alleged unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings in Piedmont, the Missouri General Assembly passed SB139 designating Piedmont and Wayne County as the UFO Capitals of Missouri.

[17] Between February and April 1973, residents of Piedmont and the surrounding area witnessed unexplained activity in the sky.

The incidents made local headlines and eventually national news outlets began reporting the sightings.

Today, the city of Piedmont celebrates this designation every April with its annual UFO Festival and space themed decorum wherever you look.

Each year brings new permanent installments, such as a UFO park, the giant UFO above The Chow Hall restaurant, a massive Alien Cheers murals from Diamond Jim's Pub, and several psychedelic apocalyptic murals at the local dispensary chain The Grateful Headz.