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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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Cass County, Missouri
Cass County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Harrisonville
Year Organized: 1835
Square Miles: 699 |
Court House: 102 East Wall Street
County Courthouse
Harrisonville, MO 64701-2478
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Lewis Cass, Michigan senator and presidential candidate.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History of Cass County (earlier Van Buren County)
Located on the western boundary of the state, with Jackson County on the north, Henry and Johnson Counties on the
east, Bates on the south, and Johnson and Miami Counties of Kansas on the west. In the progressive organization of
Missouri, the territory now forming Cass County was included in the boundaries of Howard (1816), then in Cooper (1818),
then in Lillard (1820), then in Jackson (1825), and finally separated and organized as Van Buren County (q.v.) in 1835.
In 1849 the name Van Buren was changed to Cass, in honor of General Lewis Cass (1782-1866). The change was due to
political antangonism: in the campaign of 1848, Cass was the Democratic nominee for President, running against Van
Buren; and the General Assembly of Missouri was strongly Democratic. In 1851, Cass County was diminished in size by the
cutting off of Bates County (q.v.). (HIST. CASS & BATES (1883), 91-94)
Source: Johnson, Bernice E. "Place Names In Six Of The West Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University
of Missouri-Columbia, 1933.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Archie |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Baldwin Park |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Belton |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cleveland |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Creighton |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- East Lynne |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Freeman |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Garden City |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Gunn City |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Harrisonville
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Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- La Tour |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lake Annette |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Loch Lloyd |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Peculiar |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pleasant Hill |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Raymore |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Strasburg |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- West Line |
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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