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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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Iron County, Missouri
Iron County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Ironton
Year Organized: 1857
Square Miles: 551 |
Court House: PO Box 42
County Courthouse
Ironton, MO 63650-0042
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for abundant iron ore
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History of Iron County
Organized February 17, 1857 and formed of sections of St. Francois, Madison, Washington, Dent, Reynolds, and Wayne
counties. It is bounded on the north by Washington, Crawford and St. Francois counties, on the east by St. Francois,
Madison, and Wayne counties, on the south by Reynolds and Wayne counties, on the west by Reynolds, Dent, and Crawford
counties. Named from its principal mineral. (HIST. S.E. MISSOURI 1888, 178; Conard 1901, III, 385, 387)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. "Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Annapolis |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Arcadia |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Des Arc |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ironton
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pilot Knob |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Steelville |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Viburnum |
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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