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Stone County Courthouse: Stone: Galena: 1920 NRHP-listed (refnum 80002396). Sullivan County Courthouse: Sullivan: Milan: 1939 Taney County Courthouse: Taney: Forsyth: 1952 Texas County Courthouse: Texas: Houston: 1932 The former courthouse is now the county administrative center. Vernon County Courthouse: Vernon: Nevada: 1906-8 NRHP-listed ...
Houston's municipal charter of 1840 recognized a square area of 9 square miles, which was divided into four wards. Though the surveyors chose the Harris County Courthouse as the geographical center of Houston, the ward boundaries were formed by two axes converging at the corner of Main and Congress Streets. These resulted in four pie-shaped ...
Section 14: Circuit courts – jurisdiction – sessions. (a) The circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction over all cases and matters, civil and criminal. Such courts may issue and determine original remedial writs and shall sit at times and places within the circuit as determined by the circuit court.
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Missouri.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
The average population of Missouri's counties is 53,880; St. Louis County is the most populous (987,059), and Worth County is the least (1,907). The average land area is 599 sq mi (1,550 km 2). The largest county is Texas County (1,179 sq mi, 3,054 km 2) and the smallest is St. Louis city (61.9 sq mi, 160 km 2). [5] [6]
Missouri's GOP-led Legislature last year capped off a nearly two-decade-long push by Republicans and passed a law requiring voters to show photo identification to cast a regular ballot.
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District is located in its own courthouse in downtown Kansas City. The courthouse—built in 1982—is the state's only intermediate appellate courthouse. [11] The address is 1300 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106-2970. [12]
Houston was founded in 1857 [6] and was named after Sam Houston. [7] [8]During the Civil War, Houston was sometimes defended by units of the 5th Missouri State Militia. [9]The Arthur W. and Chloe B. Cole House, Houston High School, and Houston Ranger Station Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.