8 hours?
If you drive, you will pass through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. The KY/TN border is roughly halfway.
No, Missouri does not have a state butterfly. There was a recent movement to make the Great Spangled Fritillary the state butterfly, but it didn't make it through the Legislature. Missouri does have a state insect--the honeybee.
Missouri
Missouri River and Mississippi River
23 i think
The Mississippi River defines the eastern border of the state of Missouri, and does not actually run through the state (as the Missouri River does) except where the river has created a few small islands.
The cost to travel in tolls to travel through Missouri will vary depending on the starting point. The state of Missouri has over 30 tolls.
The Missouri river and Mississippi river both travel through here, giving a lot of water to the land
Missouri
Yes
Bolivar, Missouri currently has 10,334 residents as of 2011. The town is in Polk County and is roughly a 30 minute drive north from Springfield, Missouri, the third largest city in the state of Missouri.