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Missouri Counties
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Missouri Counties
Missouri has 114 counties and one independent city. St. Louis City is separate from St. Louis
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Atchison County, Missouri
Atchison County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Rock Port
Year Organized: 1845
Square Miles: 545
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Court House: PO Box 280
County Courthouse
Rock Port, MO 64482-0280
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for David Rice Atchison, United States senator.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History of Atchison County, Missouri
Organized February 14, 1845, from Holt County and The boundaries for Allen County were defined by the
legislature in 1843 and attached to Holt County in 1845 and named in honor of David R. Atchison, who was
then a senator from Missouri. (SESSION LAWS, 1844-1845, p. 34; Davis & Durrie, p. 316; HIST. HOLT & ATCH. 1882, p. 585;
HIST. HARR. 1888, p. 182; BIOG. HIST. ATCH. p. 7; ATCH. CO. MAIL, Aug. 5, 1827, p. 1)
Source: Ewing, Martha K. "Place Names In The Northwest Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1929.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Fairfax |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Rock Port
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tarkio |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Watson |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Westboro |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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