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Bolivar is a city of about 10,000 people located on Highway 13 between Kansas City and Springfield, Missouri. It is surrounded by recreational lake areas that furnish good fishing and all types of wild game. Bolivar also has an excellent and plentiful work force with the type of people that it takes to make manufacturing and business successful.

We of the Bolivar area are proud of our good schools, churches, health care facilities, our university, and our strong business and farming community. If you are looking for a wonderful place to live and work, come to Bolivar!

The city of Bolivar actually takes its name from a town in Tennessee that was named after South American General Simon Bolivar. Many new Missouri settlers had come from Tennessee. The Campbell brothers borrowed the name of Bolivar from the town their grandfather had helped settle back in Tennessee. It symbolized freedom and new beginnings. Two bronze statues of Simon Bolivar, given to the city of Bolivar by the Venezeulan government, stand in Bolivar, Missouri.

Bolivar has a lot of be proud of, including Southwest Baptist University and its many cultural activities and sports, the recreational offerings of the Bolivar Area YMCA, a nine-hole public golf course and an 18-hole private one, a community theatre, the Live on Stage program which brings nationally known musical acts to the city, the Ella Carothers Dunnegan Art Gallery, the North Ward Historical Museum, a 4-screen movie theatre, an active genealogical society and a historical society, a publiclibrary, senior citizens services including a free senior health center and the Polk County Senior Center, and much more.

Our medical facilities are unsurpassed for a small town, with the 74-bed Citizens Memorial Hospital and its medical staff of more than 85 active andconsulting physicians. Besides its network of clinics and outpatient services, CMH boasts a Level III trauma center and air and ground ambulance services. Through its facilities in nine counties, the hospital employs more than 1600 people. Bolivar's school system israted AAA, the highest ranking given in Missouri.

Located at the junction of Mo. 13 and Mo. 32 in Polk County in the southwest portion of the state, Bolivar is 26 miles north of Springfield, 150 miles south of Kansas City, 210 miles southwest of St. Louis, and 208 miles northeast of Tulsa, Okla. The closest commercial air service is through Springfield-Branson National Airport in Springfield, and Bolivar has its own airport with a hard-surface 3500-foot runway. Access to both Stockton and Pomme de Terre Lakes is available within20 minutes, an hour's drive from Bolivar will see Truman Lake or Lake of the Ozarks, and in an hour and a half boaters can be on Table Rockor Taneycomo lakes.

For more information, also visit the Bolivar Chamber of Commerce Website!