WASHINGTON – Missouri celebrated the 200th anniversary of statehood Aug. 10 and the Census Bureau offers these state facts...

• Motto: “Salus populi suprema lex esto.” (“Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.”)

• State dog: Old Drum

• Amphibian: American bullfrog

• Bird: native bluebird

• Fish: channel catfish

• Insect: honeybee

• Reptile: three-toed box turtle

• Tree: flowering dogwood

• Mineral: galena

• Rock: mozarkite

• Musical instrument: fiddle

The U.S. made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and organized the Missouri Territory on June 4, 1812, from the Louisiana Territory, which included these states: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, and parts of Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.