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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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Miller County, Missouri
Miller County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Tuscumbia
Year Organized: 1837
Square Miles: 592
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Court House: P.O. Box 12
County Courthouse
Tuscumbia, MO 65082-0012
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for John Miller, governor of Missouri.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History of Miller County
South of Cole County near the center of Missouri. On the north are Cole and Moniteau Counties on the east are Osage
and Maries Counties, on the west is Morgan County, on the southwest is Camden, on the south is Pulaski. Originated
February 6, 1837 by act of the state legislature, before which it was a part of Cole County, and named in honor of John
Miller (1781-1846), fourth governor of Missouri, 1826-1832. John Miller was a colonel under General Harrison in the War
of 1812 and a member of Congress 1826-1842. The county was first settled in 1815 by Seneca R.Y. Day and others. (Laws of
Missouri, February 6, 1837; Parker, 321; Conard, 384-386)
Source: Weber, Frank. "Place Names Of Six South Central Counties of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1938.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bagnell |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brumley |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Eldon |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Iberia |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Olean |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- St. Elizabeth |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tuscumbia
(County
Seat) |
town |
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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