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Tebbetts is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Callaway County, Missouri - it has no city government of its own.

Tebbetts lies on Missouri Route 94 about 8 miles east of Jefferson City, on the north edge of the Missouri River floodplain, and is part of the Jefferson City metropolitan area.

Tebbetts appeared as a census-designated place for the first time in the 2020 census, which counted just 64 residents.

A post office called Tebbetts has been in operation since 1895, and the community was named for Lewis Bates Tebbetts, an official of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (the Katy) who also served as a St. Louis bank president.

Two sites at Tebbetts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Cote Sans Dessein Archeological Site and the Oakley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a congregation organized in 1878 that was the heart of the local African American community.

The nearby hill of Cote Sans Dessein - French for 'hill without design,' because it stands alone on the river - held a French fort built in 1808 that was attacked in 1815, months after the Treaty of Ghent had supposedly ended the War of 1812; the settlement there was destroyed by a great flood in 1844.

In 1995, highway road work near Tebbetts uncovered the Callaway Farms site, the remains of a Native American settlement about 5,000 years old.

Two Grand Valley State University researchers concluded that Tebbetts - not Plato, Missouri, the Census Bureau's official pick - is the true population center of the contiguous United States.