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is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,470 at the 2000 census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 square miles (2.6 km²), all of it land.
Bismarck, situated in the western part of St. Francois County, owes its origin and early growth to the farming interests about it and its location at the intersection of the Belmont branch with the main line of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. Bismarck was first laid out and surveyed in 1868. The railroad ran through the town from the northwest to the southeast. All of the original streets of Bismarck, with the exception of Main and Center, were named after trees.
In 1877 Bismarck was incorporated as a town by the County Court and the first trustees were William H. Gullivan, Benjamin Schoch, C. C. Grider, George H. Kelly and A. H. Tegmeyer. In the year 1881 this incorporation was abolished. Since that time Bismarck has been reincorporated. the population about 1910 was 848. It is now 1,579.