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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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Morgan County, Missouri
Morgan County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Versailles
Year Organized: 1833
Square Miles: 598 |
Court House: 100 E Newton
County Courthouse
Versailles, MO 65084
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Daniel Morgan, a Revolutionary War general.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Morgan County
Located in central Missouri; bounded on the north by Cooper and Moniteau Counties, on the east by Moniteau and
Miller, south by Camden, west by Benton and Pettis Counties. Organized January 5, 1833. Named for the Revolutionary
hero, General Daniel Morgan (1736-1802), who displayed great bravery at the battle of Cowpens (1781), in the defeat of
Tarleton. He died July 6, 1802. Eight counties in other states have also been named for General Morgan. A strip from the
southeast side was transferred in 1868 to Miller County and in 1881 the diagonal east boundary was changed. (Morgan
County (1887); Hist. (1889) 410; Eaton (1917) 333; Gannett)
Source: Overlay, Fauna R. "Place Names Of Five South Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1943.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Barnett |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Eldon |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Gravois Mills |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Laurie |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stover |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Syracuse |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Versailles
(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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