e-ReferenceDesk's College and 50 State Learning Resource Guide

Find Online Colleges

Find Campus Colleges

Missouri State...

Missouri

Choose a County

Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Boone, Buchanan, Butler, Caldwell, Callaway, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carroll, Carter, Cass, Cedar, Chariton, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cole, Cooper, Crawford, Dade, Dallas, Daviess, DeKalb, Dent, Douglas, Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Gentry, Greene, Grundy, Harrison, Henry, Hickory, Holt, Howard, Howell, Iron, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Laclede, Lafayette, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Madison, Maries, Marion, McDonald, Mercer, Miller, Mississippi, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, New Madrid, Newton, Nodaway, Oregon, Osage, Ozark, Pemiscot, Perry, Pettis, Phelps, Pike, Platte, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, Ray, Reynolds, Ripley, Saline, Schuyler, Scotland, Scott, Shannon, Shelby, St. Charles, St. Clair, St. Francois, St. Louis City, St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve, Stoddard, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Worth, Wright

Missouri Counties

Click Image to Enlarge

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."

Montgomery County, Missouri

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

County Seat: Montgomery City
Year Organized: 1818
Square Miles: 539

Court House:

211 East 3rd Street
County Courthouse
Montgomery City, MO 63361-1956

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for Richard Montgomery, a Revolutionary War general.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of Montgomery County

Originally a part of St. Charles County; organized December 14, 1818. The exact origin of the name remains unsettled. Three explanations have been offered. Eaton says it was named for General Richard Montgomery, a hero of the Revolutionary War, who fell at the battle of Quebec on December 31, 1775; and this explanation is supported by the authority of Colonel Switzler as reported in an article in the JEFFERSON CITY DAILY TRIBUNE. But Rose (1876), declares this derivation to be incorrect, and affirms that it was named for Montgomery County, Kentucky, because so many citizens of that county had settled here. Rose's opinion seems a plausible one, especially since General Montgomery's death lay so far in the past when the Missouri county was organized. Conard is doubtful which origin to accept, but notes that the Kentucky county was itself named for General Montgomery, a fact which would account for the theory of a like origin for the one in Missouri. Conard is followed by the HIST. ST. CHALES, MONTGOMERY & WARREN The HIST. N.E. MISSOURI, however, advances still a third explanation: that it took the middle name of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, the citizens being disappointed because Pike County (q.v.), had already appropriated his last name, and determined in some way to honor this extensively popular explorer and military hero, who had fallen in battle a few years before in the War of 1812. This conjecture is, however, unsupported by any evidence, and Rose's explanation must be given the preference. The county as at present constituted is bounded on the north by Audrain and Pike Counties, on the east by Warren and Lincoln, on the south by Warren and the Missouri River, and on the west by Callaway and Audrain. (Bryan and Rose, 228, Conard IV, 465, Eaton, 332, HIST. N.E. MISSOURI, 508, History of St. Charles, Montgomery and Warren Counties, 558, Jefferson City Daily Tribune, October 22, 1904, Laws, Terr. of Louisiana, 1818, 114-123; Mrs. J.F. Ball, W.F. Hupe)

Source: Leech, Esther. "Place Names Of Six East Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1933.

Neighboring Counties:

Insert Counties Here

Cities and Towns:

- Bellflower	city	Incorporated Area
- High Hill	city	Incorporated Area
- Jonesburg	city	Incorporated Area
- Middletown	town	Incorporated Area
- Montgomery City (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- New Florence	city	Incorporated Area
- Rhineland	town	Incorporated Area
- Wellsville	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

Enter County Resources and Information Here

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."