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Morris State Park is a public recreation area consisting of 161 acres (65 ha) in Dunklin County, Missouri. The state park preserves a section of Crowley's Ridge, a unique geologic feature of southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas. The state park offers a two-mile hiking trail along a portion of the "geologic oddity."
Like most counties situated in Southwest Missouri, Stone County is a Republican stronghold in presidential elections. George W. Bush carried Stone County in 2000 and 2004 by more than two-to-one margins, and like many other rural counties throughout Missouri, Stone County strongly favored John McCain over Barack Obama in 2008.
Galena was platted in 1852, and named for deposits of the ore galena near the original town site. [7] An early variant name was "Jamestown". [8] A post office has been in operation at Galena since 1853. [9] [10] Roscoe Jackson was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States, which took place in Galena, in 1937. [11]
Stone County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Galena, Stone County, Missouri.It was built in 1920, and is a three-story, Classical Revival style brick building on a concrete foundation meaning that it does not have a basement.
Route 413 is a highway in Missouri running between Route 13 in Springfield and Route 13 in Reeds Spring.It is an older alignment of Route 13 which was later rerouted. Except for two sections (in Springfield between Route 13 and US 60 and a 4-mile segment between US 60 and Route 265 southwest of Billings), the road runs concurrent with other designations for its entire length.
McCord Bend is located on a sharp bend on the James River approximately 2.5 miles southwest of Galena. [2] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.32 square miles (0.83 km 2), of which 0.29 square miles (0.75 km 2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km 2) is water. [6]
The formal geological name for the Lead Belt is the "Southeastern Missouri Mississippi Valley-type Mineral District". It contains the highest concentration of galena (lead(II) sulfide) in the world [2] as well as significant economic quantities of zinc, copper and silver and currently mined sub-economic quantities of metals such as cadmium, nickel and cobalt. [2]
In Missouri, only counties of the third and fourth classes, which are those with a total assessed valuation under $450,000,000, may have township governments, but are not required to. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2021, 20 of the 114 Missouri counties had township governments, containing 285 townships. [ 2 ]