Counties in Missouri that I have Visited

There are 115 Counties in Missouri – “The Show Me State“

Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states.

I have visited 42 Counties = 36.5% of Counties in Missouri

Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank. Map created using Mob Rule.

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Twelve Mile Circle Articles Featuring Places in Missouri

Markers designate the Missouri locations featured in Twelve Mile Circle articles.

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Counties in Missouri

Below are the 115 counties in Missouri. Although infrequent, counties sometimes do change so please let me know if any of this information is out of date and I will update it. Those counties that I have visited are highlighted in Red. Readers can also link to any articles manually in this section if the map isn’t working.

1. Adair
2. Andrew
3. Atchison
4. Audrain
5. Barry
6. Barton: Switching Sides
7. Bates
8. Benton: That Other Warsaw
9. Bollinger: Inland Hurricane
10. Boone: Flat Branch Pub & Brewing
11. Buchanan: The Airport on the “Wrong” Side of the River
12. Butler
13. Caldwell
14. Callaway: Reality in the Real World; No Way! Way!
15. Camden: Erasing Van Buren; Sunrise; State Nickname Streets
16. Cape Girardeau: Historic District & Flood Wall; Cape Rock Park; Bollinger Mill
17. Carroll
18. Carter: Erasing Van Buren
19. Cass: Quad County Towns, Crowdsourced; Erasing Van Buren
20. Cedar
21. Chariton
22. Christian: Public Street
23. Clarke
24. Clay
25. Clinton
26. Cole
27. Cooper
28. Crawford: Reality in the Real World
29. Dade
30. Dallas
31. Daviess
32. Dekalb
33. Dent
34. Douglas
35. Dunklin: John Hardeman Walker’s Bootheel
36. Franklin: August Bottom Road
37. Gasconade
38. Gentry
39. Greene
40. Grundy
41. Harrison
42. Henry
43. Hickory
44. Holt
45. Howard: Boone Scraps
46. Howell
47. Iron
48. Jackson: Semi-Practical Exclaves Galore!; In the 4th of July Spirit; 75th Street Brewery; Hofbräuhaus Brewery & Biergarten; Mill Creek Restaurant and Brewery; River Market Brewing Company
49. Jasper
50. Jefferson: Crystal City
51. Johnson
52. Knox
53. Laclede
54. Lafayette
55. Lawrence
56. Lewis
57. Lincoln
58. Linn
59. Livingston
60. Macon
61. Madison: Mine La Motte
62. Maries
63. Marion: Mark Twain Home
64. McDonald
65. Mercer
66. Miller
67. Mississippi: Dorena-Hickman Ferry; Riverboat Adventure; Ohio/Mississippi River Confluence
68. Moniteau: Outside of California
69. Monroe
70. Montgomery
71. Morgan: Sunrise
72. New Madrid: New Counties
73. Newton: Bonnie & Clyde Hideout
74. Nodaway
75. Oregon
76. Osage
77. Ozark
78. Pemiscot: John Hardeman Walker’s Bootheel
79. Perry
80. Pettis
81. Phelps: Rolla; Did Sir Walter Raleigh Get Drunk in Canada?
82. Pike: Adjacent Counties, Same Name, Different States
83. Platte
84. Polk: Definitely Halfway
85. Pulaski
86. Putnam
87. Ralls
88. Randolph
89. Ray
90. Reynolds
91. Ripley
92. Saline
93. Schuyler
94. Scotland
95. Scott
96. Shannon
97. Shelby
98. St. Charles: Missouri Route 370
99. St. Clair
100. St. Francois
101. St. Louis: Largest county population in Missouri (1,016,315 people in 2000 Census); Natural Bridges; Bellefontaine Neighbors
102. St. Louis (independent city): The Dreadful Road Trip; Over the Road; Natural Bridges; Morgan Street Brewery; Route 66 Brewery & Restaurant; Tap Room / Schlafly Brand Beers
103. Ste. Genevieve: Crown Ridge Tiger Sanctuary
104. Stoddard
105. Stone
106. Sullivan
107. Taney
108. Texas: Largest county in Missouri (1,179 square miles).
109. Vernon
110. Warren
111. Washington: Certainly Not Austin
112. Wayne: The State of Wayne
113. Webster
114. Worth: Smallest county in Missouri (267 square miles) and Smallest county population in Missouri (2,382 people in 2000 Census).
115. Wright

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Quick Facts About Missouri

• Location: West North Central United States. See map above.
• Size⁽¹⁾: 68,742 square miles. Missouri is the 18th largest state. The next larger state is North Dakota and the next smaller state is Oklahoma.
• Population⁽²⁾: 6,126,452 people. Missouri is the 18th most populous state. The next more populous state is Indiana and the next less populous state is Maryland.
• Population Density: 89.1 people per square mile. Missouri is the 28th most densely populated state. The next more densely populated state is Alabama and the next less densely populated state is West Virginia.
• Bordering States: Missouri shares a border with 8 states: Iowa; Nebraska; Kansas; Oklahoma; Arkansas; Tennessee; kentucky and Illinois.
• Admission to the Union: August 10, 1821. Missouri was the 24th state admitted to the Union, after Maine and before Arkansas.
• Capital: Jefferson City.
• Highest Point: 1,772 feet at Taum Sauk Mountain. See SummitPost’s Taum Sauk Mountain page.
• Lowest Point: 230 feet at St. Francis River in Dunklin Co.
• Government website: Missouri State Government Home Page.
• Official Tourism website: Welcome to Missouri.
• Still not enough? See Wikipedia’s Missouri page.

Sources:

(1) Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by area. Land area only.
(2) Wikipedia: List of states and territories of the United States by population. Estimated population on July 1, 2019.