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Missouri has 114 counties and one independent city. St. Louis City is separate from St. Louis County and is referred to as a "city not within a county."

Audrain County, Missouri

Audrain County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Mexico
Year Organized: 1836
Square Miles: 693

Court House:

101 North Jefferson
County Courthouse
Mexico, MO 65265-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for James H. Audrain, Missouri legislator.

Demographics:

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History of Audrain County

Originally a part of St. Charles County and later of Pike County. Bounded on the north by Monroe and Ralls Counties; on the east by Pike and Montgomery; on the south by Montgomery, Callaway, and Boone; and on the west by Boone and Randolph. The boundaries were designated by an act of the state legislature on January 12, 1831, the county to be organized as soon as the population was such as to justify an organization and to be named Audrain for James H. Audrain, pioneer of St. Charles County and member of the state legislature of the Eighth District (Lincoln and St. Charles Counties) from 1830 until his death on November 10, 1831. The county was organized on December 17, 1836. (HIST. AUDRAIN, 95-6, State Laws, First Session of Sixth General Assembly, 1830-1831, 20, State Laws First Session of Ninth General Assembly, 1836- 1837, 44-45; Nesbit Livingston, William Vivion)

Source: Leech, Esther. "Place Names Of Six East Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1933.

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Benton City	village	Incorporated Area
- Farber	city	Incorporated Area
- Laddonia	city	Incorporated Area
- Martinsburg	town	Incorporated Area
- Mexico (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Rush Hill	village	Incorporated Area
- Vandalia	city	Incorporated Area
- Vandiver	village	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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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