The Hendersons became very wealthy when John Henderson bought up enormous quantities of supposedly worthless bonds that Missouri counties had issued after the war.

Kirksville also anchors a Kirksville micropolitan area that comprises Adair and Schuyler County, Missouri counties.

The county court system of administrative board was operative in Missouri counties in 1841 when Governor Reynolds made the appointments for Ozark County.

Before being elected to the Missouri House of Representatives, he served as a prosecuting attorney in two Missouri counties.

General Order No. 11 (1863) - an American Civil War order expelling the residents of four Missouri counties which were then to be burned.

Lorimier is also responsible for the founding of at least two Missouri counties: Cape Girardeau County, and Bollinger County, the next county to the west.

The Missouri county of Gentry is named for him.

Premium Standard, the nation's third-largest pork producer, keeps 550,000 hogs in close quarters on land it bought a few years ago in three northern Missouri counties.

With Colman's popularity, Hardin was elected in November 1874 with support from 81 of 114 Missouri counties.

In tandem, rural Missouri counties lost population, and during the period of 1954 to 1997, the average size of Missouri farms increased from 170 to nearly 300 acres.