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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
County and is referred to as a "city not within a county." |
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Carroll County, Missouri
Carroll County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Carrollton
Year Organized: 1833
Square Miles: 695 |
Court House: 8 S. Main Suite 6
County Courthouse
Carrollton, MO 64633-1680
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History of Carroll County
Carroll County was organized January 3, 1833 and was named in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland. The name
that was intended to be given to the county was Wakenda but at the time of the county's organization by the legislature
just before the bill passed, the news of the death of Charles Carroll reached Jefferson City. A proposition was
immediately made to call the new county, Carroll. (Eaton, p. 271; Gannett, p. 70; Williams, HIST. OF N.W. MISSOURI, Vol.
I, p. 287; CARROLL COUNTY ATLAS, p. 16; Campbell, p. 112)
Source: Adams, Orvyl Guy. "Place Names In The North Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1928.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bogard |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Bosworth |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Carrollton
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cherry Valley |
township |
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- Combs |
township |
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- De Witt |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Egypt |
township |
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- Fairfield |
township |
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- Hale |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hill |
township |
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- Hurricane |
township |
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- Moss Creek |
township |
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- Norborne |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Prairie |
township |
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- Ridge |
township |
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- Rockford |
township |
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- Stokes Mound |
township |
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- Sugartree |
township |
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- Tina |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Trotter |
township |
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- Van Horn |
township |
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- Wakenda |
township |
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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