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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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Howell County, Missouri
Howell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: West Plains
Year Organized: 1857
Square Miles: 928
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Court House: 1 Courthouse Street
County Courthouse
West Plains, MO 65775-3400
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for James Howell, pioneer settler. Some sources also state the county was named for Thomas J. Howell.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History of Howell County
A very shallow, wide valley, drained by the upper part of Warm Fork Creek (earlier known as Howell Creek for the
settlers there) in the center of which is West Plains. Josiah Howell, who bought the Adams Improvement (see Town
Spring), considered the first permanent settler in the present limits of the county, and his sons Thomas Jefferson,
later in the Legislature, and Wiley came from Tennessee in the early 1840s. (Mrs. A.C. Risley; S.J. Galloway; H. Chapin;
R. Childers; Mrs. Fidelis Willis)
Source: Pottenger, Cora Ann. "Place Names Of Five Southern Border Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1945.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Brandsville |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cabool |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mountain View |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- West Plains
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Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Willow Springs |
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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