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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."

St. Louis County, Missouri

St. Louis County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Clayton
Year Organized: 1812
Square Miles: 508

Court House:

41 South Central Avenue
County Courthouse
Clayton, MO 63105-1719

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for St. Louis (King Louis IX of France), patron saint of King Louis XV.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of Saint Louis County

Organized October 1, 1812, as one of the five original counties; named for St. Louis (King Louis IX of France), patron saint of King Louis XV.

St. Louis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. According to the 2000 census, the population was 1,016,315, making the county the most populous in the state of Missouri. Its county seat is Clayton. St. Louis County is part of the sprawling St. Louis Metro Area wherein the independent City of St. Louis and its suburbs in St. Louis County, as well as the surrounding counties in both Missouri and Illinois all together account for a total population of nearly 3 million people. St. Louis County borders the City of St. Louis, which is independent from St. Louis County.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 524 square miles (1,356 km²), of which, 508 square miles (1,315 km²) of it is land and 16 square miles (41 km²) of it (3.03%) is water. St. Louis County is part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.

The Missouri River forms the northern border with Saint Charles County, exclusive of a few areas where the river has changed its course. The Meramec River forms most of its southern border with Jefferson County. To the east is the City of Saint Louis and the Mississippi River. The western boundary with Franklin County is the north-south line where the distance between the Meramec and Missouri Rivers is the shortest, bisecting the City of Pacific roughly 2 blocks east of Hwy OO/F

Neighboring Counties:

St. Charles County (north, northwest)
Madison County, Illinois (northeast)
City of St. Louis (east)
St. Clair County, Illinois & Monroe County, Illinois (southeast)
Jefferson County (south)
Franklin County (southwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Ballwin	city	Incorporated Area
- Bella Villa	city	Incorporated Area
- Bellefontaine Neighbors	city	Incorporated Area
- Bellerive	village	Incorporated Area
- Bel-Nor	village	Incorporated Area
- Bel-Ridge	village	Incorporated Area
- Berkeley	city	Incorporated Area
- Beverly Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Black Jack	city	Incorporated Area
- Breckenridge Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Brentwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Bridgeton	city	Incorporated Area
- Calverton Park	village	Incorporated Area
- Champ	village	Incorporated Area
- Charlack	city	Incorporated Area
- Chesterfield	city	Incorporated Area
- Clarkson Valley	city	Incorporated Area
- Clayton (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Cool Valley	city	Incorporated Area
- Country Club Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Country Life Acres	village	Incorporated Area
- Crestwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Creve Coeur	city	Incorporated Area
- Crystal Lake Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Dellwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Des Peres	city	Incorporated Area
- Edmundson	city	Incorporated Area
- Ellisville	city	Incorporated Area
- Eureka	city	Incorporated Area
- Fenton	city	Incorporated Area
- Ferguson	city	Incorporated Area
- Flordell Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Florissant	city	Incorporated Area
- Frontenac	city	Incorporated Area
- Glen Echo Park	village	Incorporated Area
- Glendale	city	Incorporated Area
- Grantwood Village	town	Incorporated Area
- Green Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Greendale	city	Incorporated Area
- Hanley Hills	village	Incorporated Area
- Hazelwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Hillsdale	village	Incorporated Area
- Huntleigh	city	Incorporated Area
- Jennings	city	Incorporated Area
- Kinloch	city	Incorporated Area
- Kirkwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Ladue	city	Incorporated Area
- Lakeshire	city	Incorporated Area
- Mackenzie	village	Incorporated Area
- Manchester	city	Incorporated Area
- Maplewood	city	Incorporated Area
- Marlborough	village	Incorporated Area
- Maryland Heights	city	Incorporated Area
- Moline Acres	city	Incorporated Area
- Normandy	city	Incorporated Area
- Northwoods	city	Incorporated Area
- Norwood Court	town	Incorporated Area
- Oakland	city	Incorporated Area
- Olivette	city	Incorporated Area
- Overland	city	Incorporated Area
- Pagedale	city	Incorporated Area
- Pasadena Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Pasadena Park	village	Incorporated Area
- Richmond Heights	city	Incorporated Area
- Riverview	village	Incorporated Area
- Rock Hill	city	Incorporated Area
- Sherman	township
- Shrewsbury	city	Incorporated Area
- St. Ann	city	Incorporated Area
- St. George	city	Incorporated Area
- St. John	city	Incorporated Area
- St. Louis	city	Incorporated Area
- Sunset Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Sycamore Hills	village	Incorporated Area
- Town and Country	city	Incorporated Area
- Twin Oaks	village	Incorporated Area
- University City	city	Incorporated Area
- Uplands Park	village	Incorporated Area
- Valley Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Velda City	city	Incorporated Area
- Velda Hills	village
- Vinita Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Vinita Terrace	village	Incorporated Area
- Warson Woods	city	Incorporated Area
- Webster Groves	city	Incorporated Area
- Wellston	city	Incorporated Area
- Westwood	village	Incorporated Area
- Wilbur Park	village	Incorporated Area
- Wildwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Winchester	city	Incorporated Area
- Woodson Terrace	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."