Resources for Family & Community HistoryThe map below indicates current boundary lines for Missouri's 114 counties.
Louis MSA occupies a total area of approximately 8,458 square miles, occupying portions of Missouri and Illinois. Right at its heart is the independent port city of St. Louis, MO. This sprawling MSA is considered as the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the second in Illinois.
The verdict: Mixed. The culture of the city depends on the perspective of where and with whom you are standing. For those who arrived via the south in the Great Migration, St. Louis is a Southern black outpost in the North.
Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,410 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1735 by French Canadian colonists and settlers from east of the river, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri.
There are 82 counties in Mississippi.
Louis is unusual in the United States. Since 1876, St. Louis has been an independent city, meaning it is not part of any county. Louis is the only city in Missouri which operates its own "county" offices.
Louis City and most of the 91 municipalities in St.
Louis, city, adjacent to but independent of St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River (bridged there at several points) opposite East St. Louis, Illinois, just south of the confluence of the Missouri River.
North County hugs the curves of the Missouri River just west of its confluence with the Mississippi, wraps around Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, skirting the northern city limits of St. Louis.
Brentwood is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 8,233 at the 2020 census.
Louis County, in fact, is unincorporated. That is, places like Mehlville, Affton, Lemay, Sappington, Oakville, Concord and Tesson are not actual places with boundaries, mayors or city halls. Many probably live in one of these places and never realize it.
