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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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Cooper County, Missouri
Cooper County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Boonville
Year Organized: 1818
Square Miles: 565
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Court House: 200 Main Street
County Courthouse
Boonville, MO 65233-1276
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Sarshel (Benjamin) Cooper, pioneer settler.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History of Cooper County
Cooper County was organized on December 18, 1818, and "named for Sarshell Cooper, who was killed by an Indian in
Cooper's Fort opposite Arrow Rock. One wall of Cooper's log cabin formed a part of the wall of the fort. The Indian
stealthily, in a rain or snow storm, removed a part of the chinking, and through the opening, shot Cooper while sitting
by the fire with a child on his lap. The child was uninjured." (D.W. Eaton, X, p. 280; HIST. MISSOURI, p. 197; Gannett,
p. 91; Barns, p. 196)
Source: Pace, Nadine. "Place Names In The Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1928.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Blackwater |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Boonville
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Bunceton |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Otterville |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pilot Grove |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Prairie Home |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wooldridge |
village |
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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