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Local notes for 115 Missouri counties so far — the taxes, paperwork, local-government layers, rivers and lakes, and history worth knowing where you live, each tied to official sources. Pick your county below.
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Bootheel
Butler County 20 notes Butler County sits where the Bootheel lowlands meet the Ozark foothills, with Poplar Bluff as the regional hub for the southeast corner. Dunklin County 10 notes A deep-Bootheel cotton-and-rice county seated at Kennett, built on land drained and leveed from former swamp and sandy 'sunk lands' tied to the 1811-1812 earthquakes. Durable note potential clusters around drainage districts, St. Mississippi County 5 notes A small Bootheel county on the Mississippi River with a strong, place-specific note set: Charleston's Dogwood-Azalea festival and courthouse seat, Big Oak Tree State Park's champion bottomland trees, the engineered Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, levee and drainage districts, and cotton/melon row-crop agriculture. New Madrid County 24 notes Small in population but rich in durable topics: the New Madrid Seismic Zone and 1811-1812 earthquakes as planning context, the engineered Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, levee and drainage districts, Mississippian mound history, and row-crop agriculture on re-engineered Bootheel land. Pemiscot County 11 notes Missouri's southeasternmost county, wedged against the Mississippi River and the Arkansas and Tennessee lines. Scott County 6 notes A Bootheel county where the Mississippi River corridor, drainage and levee engineering, and rail-and-ag economy meet a city-county quirk: Sikeston, the county's largest city, straddles the Scott-New Madrid line. Stoddard County 7 notes A transitional Bootheel county where Crowley's Ridge meets the drained swampland: Bloomfield sits on the ridge as the historic seat, Dexter grew as the 'Queen City of the Swamps' after drainage opened the lowlands, and the Mingo basin survives as protected federal wetland at the county's western edge.
Central Missouri / Missouri River Corridor
Audrain County 9 notes Audrain County sits on the prairie north of the Missouri River with Mexico as its seat, and its strongest durable topics are Mexico's American Saddlebred 'saddle-horse' heritage, the A.P. Boone County 41 notes Columbia's county: a university town with a large student-rental market and occupancy rules, no earnings tax or emissions testing, karst at Rock Bridge, Katy Trail access on the Missouri River, and significant university and Civil War history. Callaway County 17 notes A Missouri River corridor county anchored by Fulton, where the National Churchill Museum and Westminster College preserve the 'Iron Curtain' speech, the Ameren-operated Callaway nuclear plant sits near the river, and the 'Kingdom of Callaway' folklore gives the place a distinct identity. Cole County 33 notes The seat of state government: Jefferson City brings the Capitol, large tax-exempt state holdings, and a decommissioned penitentiary; the Missouri River sets flood limits and connects to the Katy Trail; karst and no emissions round out a central-Missouri profile. Cooper County 20 notes Cooper County sits on the south bank of the Missouri River with Boonville as its seat, and its strongest durable topics are Boonslick and Santa Fe Trail settlement history, the contested first land battle of the Civil War in Missouri at Boonville, the Katy Trail and the historic Katy Bridge crossing, Missouri River floodplain and levee questions, and the standard Missouri tax-and-plate paperwork run through the county assessor and collector. Gasconade County 13 notes Unusually rich for its small size: Hermann and the Missouri Rhineland German wine heritage anchor a deep history-and-culture cluster (Deutschheim State Historic Site, the river-town identity), while the Missouri River, the Katy Trail, and the Gasconade River drive outdoors and floodplain topics. Howard County 7 notes Howard County sits on the north bank of the Missouri River with Fayette as its seat, and its strongest durable topics are deep Boonslick settlement history, New Franklin's role at the eastern origin of the Santa Fe Trail, the Boone's Lick salt springs state historic site, Glasgow's river-port heritage, Central Methodist University in Fayette, the Katy Trail river corridor, Missouri River floodplain and levee questions, and the standard Missouri tax-and-plate paperwork run through the county assessor and collector. Moniteau County 6 notes Moniteau County is a rural row-crop county just south of the Missouri River with California as its seat, and its strongest durable topics are the courthouse-square seat at California, the railroad town of Tipton and its place in the Butterfield Overland Mail and Pony Express era, the German-settled community at Clarksburg, corn-and-soybean agriculture with right-to-farm and fence-law questions, and the standard Missouri tax-and-plate paperwork run through the county assessor and collector. Montgomery County 6 notes A small I-70 county in the Missouri River corridor between Warren and Callaway, with Montgomery City as its seat and the river bottoms and Loutre Island forming its southern edge. Osage County 7 notes A small, rural Missouri River-corridor county defined by nineteenth-century German Catholic settlement — Westphalia, Loose Creek, and the seat at Linn — and by water: the Osage River along its southern edge, the Gasconade and Maries rivers, and Painted Rock Conservation Area on the Osage bluffs. Pettis County 17 notes An unusually strong central-Missouri county anchored by Sedalia: the Missouri State Fair, Scott Joplin and ragtime, the Katy Trail and its restored Katy Depot, Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site, and a deep railroad-junction history. Randolph County 5 notes Randolph County sits in north-central Missouri with Huntsville as its small county seat and Moberly, the 'Magic City,' as its largest city and economic center. Saline County 17 notes A Missouri River corridor county with deep, layered history: the Boonslick and Santa Fe Trail at Arrow Rock, the Missouria people and ancient earthworks at Van Meter State Park, and 'Little Dixie' plantation-and-slavery history along the river bottoms.
Kansas City Region
Bates County 6 notes Bates County is a western-border prairie county seated at Butler, defined by the Marais des Cygnes river and its floodplain, remnant tallgrass prairie and conservation land, an old coal and strip-mine legacy, and a heavy Civil War history, including the General Order No. Cass County 20 notes A south-metro Kansas City county where exurban growth around Belton, Raymore, and Harrisonville meets older agricultural land: part of Kansas City crosses into it, vehicles sit outside the St. Clay County 28 notes A fast-growing Kansas City Northland county: part of Kansas City crosses into it, vehicles are outside the St. Clinton County 5 notes A north-metro fringe and farm county on the edge of the Kansas City commuter ring: Plattsburg is the historic seat, Cameron is an I-35/US-36 crossroads town tied to state prisons, the county touches Smithville Lake, and vehicles here sit outside the St. Jackson County 42 notes A large, complex metro county: two county seats, a Kansas City layer with an earnings tax, a closely watched reassessment/appeal process best framed as a durable system, plus deep frontier-trail and Truman-era history and Missouri/Blue River floodplain. Johnson County 17 notes A west-central county anchored by Warrensburg (the seat and home of the University of Central Missouri and the Old Drum legal history), Whiteman Air Force Base and Knob Noster as a major federal presence, and Knob Noster State Park for public land. Lafayette County 16 notes Lafayette County sits on the south bank of the Missouri River east of Kansas City, with Lexington as its seat. Platte County 28 notes A growing Kansas City Northland county that holds KCI airport and part of Kansas City itself, sits outside the St. Ray County 5 notes A Missouri River county northeast of Kansas City with Richmond as its courthouse-square seat, fertile river-bottom farmland under FEMA floodplain mapping, and a layered, carefully-sourced Mormon-era history around the 1838 Battle of Crooked River.
Lake of the Ozarks / Osage Region
Benton County 16 notes Benton County sits at the meeting of two big water systems: Truman Lake, a Corps of Engineers reservoir behind Truman Dam, and the far upper end of Lake of the Ozarks, which is Ameren-managed. Camden County 32 notes The heart of Lake of the Ozarks: lake property layers extra rulebooks (dock permits from the lake manager, private roads/POAs, lake-area sewer districts, short-term-rental rules), county lines split coves, and karst and a marquee state park shape the geography. Henry County 17 notes Henry County pairs a courthouse-square seat at Clinton with two big outdoor draws, the Corps-managed Truman Lake and the western trailhead of the Katy Trail, plus a coal and strip-mine legacy now in DNR's reclamation orbit. Hickory County 6 notes Hickory County is a small, rural Ozarks county seated at Hermitage and shaped by two Corps of Engineers reservoirs: Pomme de Terre Lake on its southwest side and the southern reaches of Truman Lake to the north. Miller County 16 notes Miller County splits between a small river-town seat at Tuscumbia on the Osage and the busy eastern Lake of the Ozarks at Bagnell Dam and the city of Lake Ozark, with Eldon as the inland highway-and-rail town. Morgan County 20 notes Morgan County pairs two distinct worlds: Versailles, the courthouse-square seat, and a working agricultural countryside that includes a long-established Amish/Mennonite community near Versailles, alongside the north and Gravois arm of Lake of the Ozarks where lake-property rulebooks (Ameren-managed shoreline, private roads, sewer districts, short-term-rental rules) layer onto ordinary property. St. Clair County 7 notes St. Clair County is a rural west-central Missouri county where the Osage and Sac rivers feed Truman Lake, the Corps of Engineers reservoir that dominates the county's eastern and southern edges.
Northern Missouri
Adair County 15 notes A northern-Missouri university county anchored by Kirksville, home to Truman State University and A.T. Still University (tied to the early history of osteopathic medicine). Andrew County 10 notes A small northwest-Missouri county wrapped around Savannah, sitting on the northern fringe of St. Joseph (Buchanan County) with Missouri River bottoms on the west and the Nodaway River crossing it. Atchison County 11 notes Missouri's far northwest corner county: Rock Port is the seat, the Missouri River and its levees form the western edge, the Loess Hills/bluffs give the county a distinctive windblown-silt geology, Big Lake State Park sits on a Missouri River oxbow, and row-crop and livestock agriculture dominate. Buchanan County 17 notes An urban-anchored northwest Missouri county built around St. Caldwell County 9 notes A small, rural northern-Missouri farm county seated at Kingston, with row-crop and livestock agriculture driving fence-law and right-to-farm questions, lettered and gravel rural roads, and two nationally significant 1838 Mormon War sites — Far West and Haun's Mill — that warrant careful, well-sourced handling. Carroll County 13 notes A northern-Missouri river county along the Missouri River bottoms, with Carrollton as its courthouse-square seat, broad FEMA-mapped bottomland farmland served by levee and drainage districts, and small towns and unincorporated communities like Wakenda. Chariton County 5 notes A northern Missouri River county where agriculture and river-bottom land set the rhythm of property life: floodplain and drainage questions in the bottoms, private wells and septic on rural ground, and a courthouse-square seat at Keytesville. Clark County 5 notes A small, rural county in Missouri's far northeast corner where the state meets Iowa and Illinois, with Kahoka as the county seat, agriculture across the uplands, and three rivers (the Des Moines, Fox, and Mississippi) shaping the land and its flood risk. Daviess County 9 notes A small, rural northern-Missouri farm county seated at Gallatin, with row-crop and livestock agriculture driving fence-law and right-to-farm questions, lettered and gravel rural roads, and two nationally significant history threads that warrant careful, well-sourced handling: Adam-ondi-Ahman, a Latter-day Saint site, and an 1869 Gallatin bank robbery long associated with Jesse James. DeKalb County 7 notes A small, rural northwest-Missouri farm county anchored by the seat at Maysville, with Stewartsville and Clarksdale as small towns and the larger city of Cameron straddling the DeKalb-Clinton line. Gentry County 7 notes A small, rural far-northern Missouri farm county with Albany as the seat, the Grand River and its tributaries draining the landscape, and the signature Missouri tax-and-plate paperwork in play. Grundy County 6 notes A small north-central Missouri farm county built around its seat, Trenton, which carries a college (North Central Missouri College) and a state park (Crowder) that are unusual anchors for a county this size. Harrison County 6 notes A rural northern-Missouri county on the I-35 corridor up to the Iowa line, anchored by the Bethany county seat, Grand River and its tributaries, and row-crop and livestock agriculture. Holt County 11 notes A small, lightly populated far-northwest Missouri county defined by the Missouri River bottoms and the Loess Hills: row-crop and livestock agriculture, a federal wildlife refuge famous for its snow-goose and bald-eagle migration, a state park at Big Lake, and the small seats of Oregon and Mound City. Knox County 5 notes A small, rural county in northeast Missouri with Edina as its county seat, agriculture across the uplands, the forks of the Fabius River draining the land, and a settled Amish/Mennonite community that brings a real rural road-safety consideration. Lewis County 8 notes A small, agricultural Mississippi River county in far northeast Missouri where the county seat (Monticello) is an inland village while the best-known town (Canton) sits on the river with Culver-Stockton College and the USACE-operated Lock & Dam 20. Linn County 5 notes A small north-central Missouri farm county with a strong Pershing thread: the Gen. John J. Livingston County 5 notes A north-central Missouri farm county on the Grand River, anchored by its seat Chillicothe, which carries the 'Home of Sliced Bread' (1928) story. Macon County 9 notes A north-central Missouri farm county with a railroad-junction seat (Macon, the 'City of Maples'), a genuine state-park lake (Long Branch State Park on Long Branch Lake), an Amish/Mennonite community around Atlanta, and the standard Missouri tax and plate-receipt cluster. Marion County 15 notes A Mississippi River county in northeast Missouri where the county seat (Palmyra) is not the best-known city (Hannibal), Mark Twain's boyhood home and the cave anchor a major heritage-tourism economy, the river and its floodplain set property and planning limits, and the grim 1862 Palmyra Massacre is part of the Civil War record. Mercer County 9 notes A small, remote farm county on the Iowa line: Princeton is the seat and the reputed birthplace of Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary), the Grand River drains the county, and agriculture, gravel roads, fence law, and rural wells and septic shape everyday life. Monroe County 9 notes A small agricultural county in northeast Missouri's Mark Twain country, where the county seat is Paris on the Salt River and the headline draw is the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site at Florida and the adjacent Mark Twain State Park on Mark Twain Lake. Nodaway County 8 notes A small but coherent northwest-Missouri county: a university town (Maryville), high-yield row-crop agriculture with right-to-farm and fence-law questions, a Benedictine abbey, a city recreation lake, and lettered/gravel rural roads. Pike County 7 notes A Mississippi River county in northeast Missouri whose two best-known towns (Bowling Green, the inland county seat, and Louisiana, the river town) carry the legacy of Champ Clark, the Pike Countian who served as Speaker of the U.S. House. Putnam County 6 notes A small, remote farm county on the Iowa border with Unionville as its seat. Ralls County 5 notes A small, rural northeast Missouri county where New London is the county seat, the Salt River and the Army Corps' Mark Twain Lake behind Clarence Cannon Dam are the dominant water features, and agriculture sets the rhythm of the land. Schuyler County 9 notes A small, remote far-northern Missouri county on the Iowa line, anchored by the seat of Lancaster and dominated by agriculture. Scotland County 9 notes A small, remote, row-crop county in Missouri's far northeast corner, with Memphis as the county seat, the Fox and Wyaconda rivers draining its farmland, and a regional Amish/Mennonite presence. Shelby County 8 notes A small agricultural county in northeast Missouri with two anchor towns (Shelbyville, the seat, and the larger railroad town of Shelbina on U.S. 36), an Amish/Plain community, and the western edge near Mark Twain Lake country. Sullivan County 6 notes A small, agricultural north-Missouri county anchored by Milan, with a long-rooted Amish/Mennonite community, large-scale pork production, Locust Creek, and the usual rural-county machinery of personal property tax, plate-receipt paperwork, fence law, and gravel roads. Worth County 4 notes Missouri's smallest county by area and population, in the far north on the Iowa line: Grant City is the courthouse-square seat, the landscape is row-crop and livestock agriculture near the headwaters of the Grand River, and source density is low.
Ozarks (Rural)
Carter County 10 notes A small, water-rich Ozarks county built around Van Buren and the Current River: Big Spring, the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and surrounding Mark Twain National Forest. Crawford County 17 notes A rural Ozarks county built around float streams and karst: Steelville as the Meramec/Huzzah/Courtois hub, Onondaga Cave State Park, the edge of Maramec Spring, and Mark Twain National Forest. Dent County 6 notes A rural Ozarks county centered on Salem, defined by spring-fed water and karst: Montauk State Park anchors the headwaters of the Current River and runs as one of Missouri's four trout parks, while large blocks of Mark Twain National Forest, caves, and sinkholes shape both recreation and rural property. Douglas County 5 notes Remote south-central Ozarks county seated at Ava, with a distinctive identity tied to the Missouri Fox Trotter horse breed and the Glade Top Trail National Scenic Byway through the Mark Twain National Forest. Howell County 15 notes South-central Ozarks county built around West Plains, the regional hub and home of Missouri State University-West Plains. Laclede County 19 notes Laclede County is anchored by Lebanon, a Route 66 town (Munger Moss Motel), and is rich in durable Ozarks topics: Bennett Spring State Park, one of Missouri's four trout parks and a major regional draw; the Niangua River and karst springs; a personal-property-tax and plate-receipt story like every Missouri county; and a regional aluminum-boat manufacturing identity. Maries County 9 notes A small, rural Ozark county with low source density, organized around Vienna as the county seat and two float-worthy waterways, the Maries and Gasconade rivers, plus Spring Creek. Oregon County 6 notes A remote, low-source-density Ozarks county on the Arkansas line, with Alton as the seat and most of its signature land and water tied to federal management: the Eleven Point National Scenic River and Greer Spring, the roadless Irish Wilderness, and large blocks of Mark Twain National Forest. Ozark County 5 notes Remote south-central Ozarks county on the Arkansas line, with Gainesville as its small county seat. Phelps County 16 notes Rolla's county: home to Missouri University of Science & Technology and the Missouri Geological Survey, the state's geology agency, which makes karst, wells, and well-log data a standout local angle. Pulaski County 13 notes Pulaski is an Ozarks county defined by two forces: Fort Leonard Wood, a major Army post that drives a large, transient population through Waynesville and St. Ripley County 7 notes A remote southeast Ozark county anchored by Doniphan on the lower Current River, with large tracts of Mark Twain National Forest, a timber-based rural economy, and float-stream recreation as it nears the Arkansas line. Shannon County 17 notes A small, remote, water-rich Ozarks county built around Eminence and the Ozark National Scenic Riverways: the wild Current and Jacks Fork rivers, big karst springs (Round, Alley, Blue), Echo Bluff State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and the free-roaming wild horses. Texas County 6 notes A large, rural, timber-and-agriculture Ozarks county built around Houston (the seat) and Licking, widely described as Missouri's largest county by land area. Wright County 4 notes Small rural Ozarks county on the northern edge of the Springfield Plateau, with Hartville as a centrally placed county seat and Mansfield best known as the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Rocky Ridge Farm.
Southeast Missouri / Lead Belt / Mississippi Corridor
Bollinger County 9 notes A small, rural Southeast Missouri county whose signature place is Bollinger Mill State Historic Site and the Burfordville Covered Bridge over the Whitewater River. Cape Girardeau County 31 notes A Mississippi River county where the county seat (Jackson) is not the largest city (Cape Girardeau), a downtown floodwall holds back the river, the New Madrid seismic zone is a planning layer, and Trail of Tears history and a regional university shape the area. Iron County 12 notes A small, scenery-rich county at the heart of the St. Francois Mountains, where ancient igneous rock surfaces as Missouri's highest ground (Taum Sauk Mountain), the granite domes of Elephant Rocks, and the river-carved Johnson's Shut-Ins. Madison County 9 notes A small Southeast Missouri county on the eastern edge of the St. Francois Mountains, with Fredericktown as its seat. Perry County 10 notes A Mississippi River county whose seat, Perryville, sits in one of Missouri's densest karst landscapes, with extensive sinkholes and a long cave system that make groundwater and onsite-wastewater questions unusually central. Reynolds County 5 notes A small, remote, heavily forested county in the St. Francois Mountains built around Centerville as the seat. St. Francois County 22 notes The heart of the Old Lead Belt: Farmington is the seat, the Park Hills/Flat River area sits on former lead-mining ground, and the legacy left mine tailings (chat) and federally documented cleanup to handle calmly via EPA and DNR. Ste. Genevieve County 15 notes A Mississippi River county whose seat, Ste. Genevieve, holds one of the densest concentrations of French Colonial vertical-log architecture in North America, now anchored by a National Historical Park. Washington County 10 notes Potosi is the seat of a county defined by one of Missouri's oldest mining districts: barite (locally 'tiff') alongside an early lead history reaching back to French colonial Mine au Breton. Wayne County 5 notes Wayne County sits where the St. Francois Mountains meet the St.
Southwest Missouri
Barry County 15 notes Barry County, seated at Cassville in southwest Missouri's western Ozark plateau, is rich in durable place-specific topics: Roaring River State Park, one of Missouri's small set of trout parks built around a large karst spring; the south end of Table Rock Lake managed by the U.S. Barton County 11 notes Barton County, seated at Lamar in southwest Missouri, is a small, lower-source-density rural county whose strongest place-specific topics are durable rather than volatile: the Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site in Lamar; Prairie State Park, Missouri's largest remaining tallgrass prairie with a managed bison herd; a legacy of coal mining on the Cherokee/cherty plains; a row-crop and cattle farm economy; and the long-running Lamar Free Fair. Cedar County 8 notes Cedar County is organized around Stockton, the county seat, and Stockton Lake, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir behind Stockton Dam that is known regionally as a sailing lake and wrapped by Stockton State Park. Christian County 30 notes One of Missouri's fastest-growing counties: Springfield bedroom communities (Nixa, Ozark) drive school-district growth and reassessment, karst shapes water and land, septic-to-sewer transitions matter as subdivisions spread, and Bald Knobber vigilante history anchors the county's past. Dade County 6 notes Dade County, seated at Greenfield in southwest Missouri's western Ozark-border country, is a small, agriculture-centered, comparatively low-source-density county with a handful of durable place-specific topics: the north end of Stockton Lake, a U.S. Dallas County 10 notes Dallas County is a rural Ozark-plateau county seated at Buffalo, defined by water and karst: the Niangua River and the Bennett Spring area along its eastern edge, the headwaters reach of the Pomme de Terre River, and limestone/dolomite terrain with springs, caves, and sinkholes that shape wells and septic. Greene County 41 notes Springfield's county: a fast-growing metro on karst terrain (sinkholes, springs, caves, radon), with no local earnings tax and no St. Louis-area emissions, a municipal utility, and strong Civil War and Route 66 history. Jasper County 30 notes A Tri-State mining and Route 66 county: Joplin spans the Jasper-Newton line, the lead-zinc mining legacy left cleanup sites and ground-stability questions to handle calmly, the 2011 Joplin tornado is a durable preparedness lesson, and Carthage carries Civil War and courthouse-square history. Lawrence County 11 notes Lawrence County, seated at Mount Vernon on the western Ozark plateau between Springfield and Joplin, offers durable place-specific topics: a courthouse-square seat at Mount Vernon, the railroad-and-mining town of Aurora, Marionville's distinctive white squirrels, a well-preserved stretch of historic Route 66 through Halltown and Paris Springs, and a strong row-crop-and-livestock agricultural base. McDonald County 5 notes McDonald County sits in Missouri's far southwest corner, where the state meets Arkansas and Oklahoma on the Ozark border. Newton County 16 notes A Tri-State mining and Route 66 county on the Oklahoma-Kansas corner of Missouri: Neosho is the seat and home to the Neosho National Fish Hatchery, Joplin spills south across the Jasper-Newton line, George Washington Carver National Monument sits nearby in Diamond, and the lead-zinc mining legacy and Shoal Creek shape land and water questions. Polk County 9 notes Polk County, seated at Bolivar on the western Ozark border plateau north of Springfield, offers durable, place-specific notes: Bolivar as home of Southwest Baptist University and of a Simon Bolivar statue tied to Venezuela; the eastern edge of Pomme de Terre Lake, a U.S. Stone County 19 notes Stone County is the western, Galena-seat half of the Branson/Table Rock Lake market: a Corps-managed reservoir and dam, Kimberling City, the James River feeding the lake, classic Ozark karst (caves, springs, sinkholes) including the Marvel Cave system at Silver Dollar City, and heavy short-term-rental pressure shared with Taney County across the line. Taney County 31 notes Branson's county: a tourism economy with lodging and short-term-rental questions, two very different lakes (Table Rock and the cold tailwater of Lake Taneycomo), a Corps-managed shoreline, a county line that splits the Branson area with Stone County, and durable Ozark tourism history. Vernon County 6 notes Vernon County, seated at Nevada on Missouri's western border, sits on the Osage Plains rather than the Ozark karst that dominates much of southwest Missouri, so its strongest place-specific notes run to tallgrass prairie, conservation lands, and border-war history instead of caves and lakes. Webster County 5 notes Webster County sits on the western Ozark plateau just east of Springfield, with Marshfield as its seat.
St. Louis Region
Franklin County 30 notes A St. Louis exurban county on the Meramec River and Route 66: real river-flood history, karst and show caves, German river-town heritage at Washington, and a notable contrast with the inner metro because it sits outside the St. Jefferson County 29 notes A St. Lincoln County 15 notes A fast-growing St. Louis exurb anchored by Troy, hemmed by the Mississippi and Cuivre rivers, and shaped by floodplain, levee, and drainage questions. Its signature twist is that it sits just outside the four-jurisdiction St. St. Charles County 31 notes A fast-growing suburban county inside the St. St. Louis City 43 notes An independent city and county-equivalent: county-style offices are city offices, there is a 1% earnings tax, vehicles fall in the St. St. Louis County 41 notes A county defined by municipal fragmentation: dozens of municipalities plus unincorporated areas, municipal occupancy inspections, separate fire and school districts, the regional sewer district, St. Warren County 17 notes An I-70 exurban county on the western edge of the St.
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