Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
St. Charles County is the only known habitat of the threatened decurrent false aster in Missouri. [7]According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 593 square miles (1,540 km 2), of which 560 square miles (1,500 km 2) is land and 32 square miles (83 km 2) (5.4%) is water.
Saint Charles (commonly abbreviated St. Charles) is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. [2] The population was 70,493 at the 2020 census, making St. Charles the ninth-most populous city in Missouri. Situated on the Missouri River, St. Charles is a northwestern suburb of St. Louis.
The St. Charles Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri. It is the site of the first permanent European settlement on the Missouri River and of the embarkation of Lewis and Clark's journey of exploration along the Missouri. The first state capital of Missouri and over one hundred ...
Saint Charles County: 183: Saint Charles: 1812: One of the five original counties: St. Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), an Italian saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church: 416,659: 561 sq mi (1,453 km 2) Saint Clair County: 185: Osceola: 1841: Rives (now Henry) County: Arthur St. Clair (1737–1818), an American soldier and Governor of ...
This water tower provides potable water to the town of Portage Des Sioux in St. Charles, Missouri. Portage Des Sioux is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The town sits on the Mississippi River roughly opposite Elsah, Illinois, and is the home of the riverside shrine of Our Lady of the Rivers.
St. Charles County Smartt Airport, [1] [2] also known as Smartt Field, [3] is a county-owned, public-use airport in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located nine nautical miles (17 km) northeast of the central business district of the City of St. Charles. [1]
St. Charles Car Company, a railroad rolling stock manufacturing company located in St. Charles, Missouri, was founded in 1872 or 1873. In 1899 it merged with twelve other companies to form American Car and Foundry (ACF). The St. Charles plant became the main passenger car works. With a failing market for steel passenger cars, ACF phased out the ...
Cottleville is one of the oldest towns in St. Charles County. The town was first settled by Captain Warren G. Cottle in 1798 under a Spanish land grant. [4] The area saw little development until 1810 when the John Pitman family arrived. Captain Cottle died in 1811, and his son, Dr. Warren G. Cottle Jr., inherited the farmlands. Dr.