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There are 114 counties and one independent city in the U.S. State of Missouri.Following the Louisiana Purchase and the admittance of Louisiana into the United States in 1812, five counties were formed out of the Missouri Territory at the first general assembly: Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, and Ste. Genevieve.
This is a list of county courthouses in the U.S. state of Missouri. Each county in Missouri has a city that is the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse. Federal courthouses in Missouri are not listed here.
Missouri is the only state in the Union to have two Federal Reserve Banks: one in Kansas City (serving western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, northern New Mexico, and Wyoming) and one in St. Louis (serving eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, western Kentucky, western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and all ...
Adair County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. The population census for 2020 was 25,314. [ 1 ] As of July 1, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimate for the county is 25,185, a -0.5% change.
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
Located in Tornado Alley, Missouri also receives extreme weather in the form of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. On May 22, 2011, a massive EF-5 tornado killed 158 people and destroyed roughly one-third of the city of Joplin. The tornado caused an estimated $1–3 billion in damages and injured more than a thousand people as it tore through ...
Howard County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri, with its southern border formed by the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census , the population was 10,151. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Fayette .
Cooper County is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,103. [1] Its county seat is Boonville. [2] The county was organized December 17, 1818, and named for Sarshell Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Native Americans near Arrow Rock in 1814.