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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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Osage County, Missouri
Osage County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Linn
Year Organized: 1841
Square Miles: 606 |
Court House: P.O. Box 826
Linn, MO 65051-0826
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for the Osage River. The name Osage is generally believed to be a corruption by the French of Washazhe, the name of the Osage Indians. The name has also been given as Wawsashe, Wacase, and Wassashsha. Marquette spelled the named Ouchage and
Autrechacha. The name, to the Indians, meant "people."
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Osage County
Organized from Gasconade County by act of legislature January 29, 1841. It originally included part of Maries County.
On the north is the Missouri River; on the south, Maries County; on the west, the Osage River and Miller County; on the
east is Gasconade County. The county was named for the Osage River (q.v.), which forms most of its western boundary. (HIST.
COLE etc., 593, 694)
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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- Argyle |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chamois |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Freeburg |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Linn
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Meta |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Westphalia |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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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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