Saline County, Missouri
| Saline County, Missouri | |
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Saline County Courthouse in Marshall
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 Location in the U.S. state of Missouri |
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 Missouri's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | November 25, 1820 |
| Named for | The salt springs in the region |
| Seat | Marshall |
| Largest city | Marshall |
| Area | |
| • Total | 767 sq mi (1,987 km2) |
| • Land | 756 sq mi (1,958 km2) |
| • Water | 11 sq mi (28 km2), 1.5% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 23,258 |
| • Density | 31/sq mi (12/km²) |
| Congressional district | 5th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
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| Elected countywide officials | ||||
| Assessor | Margaret Pond | Democratic | ||
| Circuit Clerk | Sharon D. Crawford | Democratic | ||
| County Clerk | Debbie Russell | Democratic | ||
| Collector | Cindi A. Sims | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (Presiding) |
Kile Guthrey | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (District 1) |
Charles Guthrie | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (District 2) |
Monte Fenner | Democratic | ||
| Coroner | William “Willie” Harlow | Democratic | ||
| Prosecuting Attorney | Donald G. Stouffer | Democratic | ||
| Public Administrator | Paula J. Barr | Democratic | ||
| Recorder | Jamie Nichols | Democratic | ||
| Sheriff | Wally George | Democratic | ||
| Surveyor | Robert Robinson | Independent | ||
| Treasurer | Marty Smith | Republican | ||
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| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 617 (38.30%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 518 (32.15%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 392 (24.33%) | |
| Ron Paul | 51 (3.17%) | |
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| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Clinton | 1,787 (57.46%) | |
| Barack Obama | 1,177 (37.85%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 111 (3.57%) | |
Saline County is a county located along the Missouri River in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,370. Its county seat is Marshall. The county was established November 25, 1820, and named for the region's salt springs.
Settled primarily by migrants from the Upper South during the nineteenth century, this county was in the region bordering the Missouri River known as "Little Dixie". In the antebellum years it had plantations supported by enslaved workers. One-third of the county population was African American at the start of the American Civil War, but their proportion of the residents has declined dramatically to little more than five percent.
Saline County comprises the Marshall, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Historically Saline County was occupied for thousands of years by succeeding cultures of Missouri Native Americans. Saline County was organized by European-American settlers on November 25, 1820, and was named from the salinity of the springs found in the region. After periods of conflict as settlers competed for resources and encroached on their territory, the local Native Americans, including the Osage nation, were forced by the US to relocate to reservations in Indian Territory, first in Kansas and then in Oklahoma.
Saline County was among several along the Missouri River that were settled primarily by migrants from the Upper South states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The settlers quickly started cultivating crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and tobacco; they had brought slave workers with them to central Missouri, or purchased them from slave traders. These counties settled by southerners became known as "Little Dixie." By the time of the Civil War, one-third of the county population was African American; most of them were enslaved laborers on major plantations, particularly for labor-intensive tobacco cultivation. In 1847 the state legislature had prohibited any African Americans from being educated.
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