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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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McDonald County, Missouri
McDonald County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Pineville
Year Organized: 1849
Square Miles: 540
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Court House: P.O. Box 665
County Courthouse
Pineville, MO 64856-0665
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Alexander McDonald, Revolutionary War soldier.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History of McDonald County (earlier Snake County)
Organized in 1849 and named for Sergeant McDonald, a South Carolina trooper in the Revolution.(1) Sturges remarks
that "it has been quite a difficult task to ascertain the origin of the name, but all the old settlers state that the
county was named after an officer in the Revolutionary War."(2) (1. R(Goodspeed (19), p. 179); 2. R(Sturges (20), p. 6)
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Source: Bell, Margaret E. "Place Names In The Southwest Border Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1933.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Anderson |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Goodman |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lanagan |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Noel |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pineville
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Southwest City |
town |
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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