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The area known today as Ste. Genevieve Township was split between two French colonial districts: Ste. Genevieve District and New Bourbon District. Upper Louisiana was transferred to the United States in 1804, and in 1824 the state of Missouri was carved from the territory.
Ste. Genevieve (French: Sainte-Geneviève [sɛ̃t ʒənvjɛv]) is a city in Ste. Genevieve Township and is the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. [5] The population was 4,999 at the 2020 census . [ 6 ]
The specific weight, also known as the unit weight (symbol γ, the Greek letter gamma), is a volume-specific quantity defined as the weight W divided by the volume V of a material: = / Equivalently, it may also be formulated as the product of density, ρ, and gravity acceleration, g: = Its unit of measurement in the International System of Units (SI) is newton per cubic metre (N/m 3), with ...
Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States: Coordinates: Area: 11.73 acres (4.75 ha) [1] Established: 1970 [2] Visitors: 7,619 (in 2022) [3] Governing body: Missouri Department of Natural Resources: Website: Felix Vallé House State Historic Site
Ste. Genevieve County is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River approximately 60 miles (97 km) south of St. Louis. Ste. Genevieve is the principal town and the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County with a population of around 5,000 people. Ste. Genevieve was the first permanent civilized settlement in Missouri.
This is a locator map showing Sainte Genevieve County in Missouri. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
Le Grand Champ (French for "the big field") is an alluvial floodplain, also called a bottom, extending along the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. [1]The American Bottom stretches from St. Louis south along the east side of the Mississippi River all the way to the mouth of the Kaskaskia River, just north of Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois.
The Ste. Genevieve Limestone is a geologic formation named for Ste. Genevieve, Missouri where it is exposed and was first described. It is a thick-bedded limestone that overlies the St. Louis Limestone. Both are Mississippian in age. The St. Louis Limestone is Meramecian and the Ste. Genevieve is the base of the Chesterian series. [1]