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The average population of Missouri's counties is 53,880; St. Louis County is the most populous (987,059), and Worth County is the least (1,907). The average land area is 599 sq mi (1,550 km 2 ). The largest county is Texas County (1,179 sq mi, 3,054 km 2 ) and the smallest is St. Louis city (61.9 sq mi, 160 km 2 ).
In Missouri, only counties of the third and fourth classes, which are those with a total assessed valuation under $450,000,000, may have township governments, but are not required to. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2021, 20 of the 114 Missouri counties had township governments, containing 285 townships. [ 1 ]
The community was founded in 1792 and is named for Wolf Island in the Mississippi River, which is actually part of Kentucky.According to Missouri folklorist Margot Ford McMillen, the name of both the island and the community stem from the large number of wolves that were present in the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
List of members of the United States House delegation from Missouri, their terms, their district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation in the 118th United States Congress has a total of 8 members, including 6 Republicans and 2 Democrats .
The county was one of only two jurisdictions in Missouri to be carried by Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election against incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon, the other being the city of St. Louis. Monroe County was first carried by a Republican in 1976 by John Danforth in the U.S. Senate race.
Denton is an unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [ 2 ] The community has the name of Neil V. Denton, the original owner of the site.
Adair County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. The population census for 2020 was 25,314. [ 1 ] As of July 1, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimate for the county is 25,185, a -0.5% change.
John Miller, the county's namesake. Miller County is a county located in the northern Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 24,722. [1] Its county seat is Tuscumbia. [2] The county was organized February 6, 1837, and named for John Miller, [3] former U.S. Representative and Governor ...