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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."

Jasper County, Missouri

Jasper County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Carthage
Year Organized: 1841
Square Miles: 640

Court House:

302 S. Main Street
County Courthouse
Carthage, MO 64836-1621

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for William Jasper, Revolutionary War soldier.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of Jasper County

Jasper County, organized January 29, 1841, by an act of the State Legislature, was named for Sergeant William Jasper (1750-1779), who replaced the fallen flag on Fort Moultrie, June 28, 1776, and who lost his life while trying to replace the colors on Spring Hill redoubt, near Savannah, Georgia, on October 7, 1779. (Session Acts 1840-1841; Eaton (28), p. 178)

Source: Meyers, Robert Lee. "Place Names In The Southwest Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1930.

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Airport Drive	village	Incorporated Area
- Alba	city	Incorporated Area
- Asbury	city	Incorporated Area
- Avilla	town	Incorporated Area
- Brooklyn Heights	town	Incorporated Area
- Carl Junction	city	Incorporated Area
- Carterville	city	Incorporated Area
- Carthage (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Carytown	city	Incorporated Area
- Duenweg	city	Incorporated Area
- Duquesne	village	Incorporated Area
- Fidelity	town	Incorporated Area
- Jasper	city	Incorporated Area
- Joplin	city	Incorporated Area
- La Russell	city	Incorporated Area
- Lakeside	city	Incorporated Area
- Neck City	city	Incorporated Area
- Oronogo	city	Incorporated Area
- Purcell	city	Incorporated Area
- Redings Mill	village	Incorporated Area
- Reeds	town	Incorporated Area
- Sarcoxie	city	Incorporated Area
- Waco	town	Incorporated Area
- Webb City	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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."