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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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Laclede County, Missouri
Laclede County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Lebanon
Year Organized: 1849
Square Miles: 766
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Court House: 200 N Adams Avenue
County Courthouse
Lebanon, MO 65536-3046
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Pierre Laclede Liguest, founder of St. Louis.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History of Laclede County
Located in south-central Missouri, bounded by Camden and Pulaski on the north, on the east by Pulaski and Texas, on
the south by Wright andf Webster, and on the west by Dallas. Formed from Pulaski County. The petition to form the county
passed the state legislature March 27, 1845, and the first election was held the first Monday in April, 1849. Named by
the legislature to honor Pierre Liguest Laclede, founder of St. Louis, who died June 20, 1778. (HIST. LACLEDE (1889), p.
3; Eaton, MISSOURI HIST. REV., vol. 2, p. 182)
Source: O'Brien, Anna. "Place Names Of Five Central Southern Counties of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1939.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Conway |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Evergreen |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lebanon
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Phillipsburg |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stoutland |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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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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