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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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Nodaway County, Missouri

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

 

County Seat: Maryville
Year Organized: 1845
Square Miles: 877
 		 Court House:

P. O. Box 218
County Courthouse
Maryville, MO 64468-0218
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for the Nodaway River. Nodaway is an Indian name which has many meanings. A simple explanation of the word is that it signifies "placid" or "placid water." Others hold that the word means "snakes," and figuratively "aliens" or "enemies." Mr. Allen Read, in his study of Iowa place names gives the following explanation of the name of a town called Nodaway, and the river from Andres Historical Atlas (p. 420). "There was an Indian interpreter in that vicinity in the early days who the other Indians called "Not-a-way." Dr. Luther Bent, who had a contract to supply beef to them asked the Indian the reason for it, and he replied that it was because he was like a rattlesnake, vindictive, revengeful and cunning. The stream for which this town was named also had the same source for its name be said, because in the early days its borders had been infested with rattlesnakes." Mr. Read quotes from A.R. Fulton's RED MEN OF IOWA (p. 488) to show how the name Nodaway links up with Nishnebotna: "When the Indians came to the Nodaway, they found it narrow and shallow enough that they called it "Crossed-without-a-canoe" or Nodaway. For the Nishnebotna they found the opposite and said, "crossed-with-a-canoe." (Eaton, p. 198, 336 Ibid. HIST. OF NOD., p. 85; Read, W.A., p. 43-4 Ibid, Gannett, p. 225; Ibid Thwaites, Vol. 14, p. 37; Read, Allen W., p. 52)


Source: Ewing, Martha K. "Place Names In The Northwest Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1929.
 

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of Nodaway County

Organized in 1845 and named from the principal river, which crosses it near the western boundary. (Eaton, p. 336, 198; HIST. NODAWAY, p. 85; Session Laws, 1840, p. 32-33)


Source: Ewing, Martha K. "Place Names In The Northwest Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1929.
 

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Cities and Towns:
- Arkoe town Incorporated Area
- Atchison township  
- Barnard city Incorporated Area
- Burlington Junction city Incorporated Area
- Clearmont city Incorporated Area
- Clyde village Incorporated Area
- Conception Junction town Incorporated Area
- Elmo city Incorporated Area
- Graham town Incorporated Area
- Grant township  
- Green township  
- Guilford town Incorporated Area
- Hopkins city Incorporated Area
- Hughes township  
- Jefferson township  
- Maryville (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Monroe township  
- Nodaway township  
- Parnell city Incorporated Area
- Pickering town Incorporated Area
- Quitman town Incorporated Area
- Ravenwood town Incorporated Area
- Skidmore city Incorporated Area
- White Cloud township
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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