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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."
 

 

  		 

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New Madrid County, Missouri

New Madrid County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: New Madrid
Year Organized: 1812
Square Miles: 678
 		 Court House:

P. O. Box 68
County Courthouse
New Madrid, MO 63869-0068
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for Madrid, Spain.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of New Madrid

When the county of New Madrid was first organized in 1812, the boundaries were: On the north the south line of Cape Girardeau County; on the east the main channel of the Mississippi River; on the south a line commencing in the middle of the said river opposite the lower end of an island laid down in the navigator as No. 19: thence in a direct line to strike White River at the mouth of Red River to the western boundary of the Osage purchase, thence northward on said line to the south line of Cape Girardeau County. One of the five counties organized by Governor Benjamin Howard from Missouri Territory in 1812. Until 1818, when Wayne County (q.v.) was cut off from it, New Madrid County included all the counties here studied. Its name was derived from the old town of New Madrid, named in 1789 for the capital of Spain. (Eaton (44) V, p. 72; Houck (10) I, p. xxi; Haswell (11), p. 19) This territory was reduced in 1821 by the organization of Scott County; in 1829 by the organization of Stoddard County, and in 1851 to its present size by the organization of Pemiscot County. It was named for the principal town within its limits (cf. above). (Goodspeed 327-330, Douglass I 164-166)


Source: Hamlett, Mayme L. "Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938.
 

Neighboring Counties:
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Cities and Towns:
- Canalou city Incorporated Area
- Catron town Incorporated Area
- Gideon city Incorporated Area
- Howardville city Incorporated Area
- Lilbourn city Incorporated Area
- Marston city Incorporated Area
- Matthews city Incorporated Area
- Morehouse city Incorporated Area
- New Madrid (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- North Lilbourn village Incorporated Area
- Parma city Incorporated Area
- Portageville city Incorporated Area
- Risco city Incorporated Area
- Tallapoosa 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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