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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."

Ralls County, Missouri

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

County Seat: New London
Year Organized: 1820
Square Miles: 471

Court House:

P. O. Box 400
County Courthouse
New London, MO 63459-0400

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for Daniel Ralls, Missouri legislator.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of Ralls County

Originally a part of Pike County. Formed on November 16, 1820, and then including eight other counties and parts of four others lying to the north and west. With the organization of Marion County in 1826, Randolph in 1829, Monroe in 1831, and Audrain in 1836, Ralls assumed its present limits. On the north is Marion County; on the east, the Mississippi River; on the south, Pike and Audrain; on the west, Monroe and Marion. Ralls was named for Daniel Ralls, member of the state legislature from Pike County, a Virginian who emigrated in his youth to Kentucky, thence in 1818 to Missouri four miles west of New London. He died on October 20, 1820, while the legislature was in session, a few days after he was carried from his sick bed to cast the deciding vote which made Thomas H. Benton a U.S. Senator. (STATE LAWS, 1ST SESSION OF 1ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 17-18; B.B. Megown, W.T. Waters)

Source: Leech, Esther. "Place Names Of Six East Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1933.

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Cities and Towns:

- Center	city	Incorporated Area
- New London (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Perry	city	Incorporated Area

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