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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."

Platte County, Missouri

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

County Seat: Platte City
Year Organized: 1838
Square Miles: 420

Court House:

409 Third Street, Box 105
County Administration Building
Platte City, MO 64079-9363

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for the Platte River. The principal river of the county. It rises in Nodaway County, flows south, and empties into the Missouri River. The Lewis and Clark Journal has this entry: "...passed the mouth of a small river ten miles above the Kansas called by the French Petite River Platte (or Shoal River), from the number of falls in it." The French compared it to the larger Platte River of Nebraska. Locally it was not known as the Little Platte. The name Platte for both rivers has the sense indicated by Lewis and Clark of "shoal" or shallow, which is eminently characteristic of either stream. (ATLAS PLATTE 1907, Th's L. and C. Vol. I, 62)

Source: Atchison, Anne. "Place Names Of Five West Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1937.

Demographics:

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History of Platte County

Organized in 1828 and named for the principal stream of the county, Platte River (q.v.). At the time of its organization, it had its present boundaries: Buchanan County on the north, Clinton and Clay Counties on the east. The Missouri River separates it on the south and west from the state of Kansas. (LAWS OF MISSOURI 1838, 23; Eaton)

Source: Atchison, Anne. "Place Names Of Five West Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1937.

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Camden Point	city	Incorporated Area
- Dearborn	city	Incorporated Area
- Edgerton	city	Incorporated Area
- Farley	village	Incorporated Area
- Ferrelview	village	Incorporated Area
- Houston Lake	city	Incorporated Area
- Iatan	village	Incorporated Area
- Kansas City	city	Incorporated Area
- Lake Waukomis	city	Incorporated Area
- Northmoor	city	Incorporated Area
- Parkville	city	Incorporated Area
- Platte City (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Platte Woods	city	Incorporated Area
- Ridgely	village	Incorporated Area
- Riverside	city	Incorporated Area
- Tracy	city	Incorporated Area
- Weatherby Lake	city	Incorporated Area
- Weston	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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."