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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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Johnson County, Missouri
Johnson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Warrensburg
Year Organized: 1834
Square Miles: 831
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Court House: 300 N. Holden Street
County Courthouse
Warrensburg, MO 64093-1708
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for R.M. Johnson, Kentucky senator and later vice president.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History of Johnson County
In the west-central part of the state, bounded on the north by Lafayette County, on the east by Pettis County, on the
south by Henry and Cass Counties, and on the west by Jackson and Cass Counties. Organized in 1834, and named by Robert
Macklin White, a member of the Missouri State Legislature, in honor of Honorable Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850),
born near Louisville, Kentucky. He served in the War of 1812, and at the Battle of Thames in 1813. It was by his hand
that Tecumseh was supposed to have been slain. In 1819 he was elected Senator from Kentucky to fill a vacancy in the
United States Senate. In 1829 he was returned to the House of Representatives. In 1836, he was candidate for vice
president on the Van Buren ticket, and was elected by the Senate. He was candidate for vice president again in 1840, but
was defeated. Originally Johnson County was a portion of Lafayette County. (HIST. JOHNSON 1881, 174)
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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- Centerview |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chilhowee |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Holden |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Kingsville |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Knob Noster |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Leeton |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Warrensburg
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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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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