Webster County, Missouri
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Webster County Courthouse
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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 | March 3, 1854 |
| Named for | Daniel Webster |
| Seat | Marshfield |
| Largest city | Marshfield |
| Area | |
| • Total | 594 sq mi (1,538 km2) |
| • Land | 593 sq mi (1,536 km2) |
| • Water | 1.2 sq mi (3 km2), 0.2% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 37,483 |
| • Density | 61/sq mi (24/km²) |
| Congressional districts | 4th, 7th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
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| Elected countywide officials | ||||
| Assessor | Jim Jones | Republican | ||
| Circuit Clerk | Jill Peck | Republican | ||
| County Clerk | Stanley D. Whitehurst | Republican | ||
| Collector | Kevin Farr | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (Presiding) |
Paul Ipock | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 1) |
Ward Jones | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 2) |
Denzil Young | Republican | ||
| Coroner | Michael Taylor | Republican | ||
| Prosecuting Attorney | Ben Berkstresser | Republican | ||
| Public Administrator | Danielle Boggs | Republican | ||
| Recorder | Gary Don Letterman | Republican | ||
| Sheriff | Roye Cole | Republican | ||
| Surveyor | Dennis D. Amsinger | Republican | ||
| Treasurer | Mary P. Clair | Republican | ||
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| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 1,343 (26.59%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 2,576 (51.00%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 897 (17.76%) | |
| Ron Paul | 168 (3.33%) | |
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| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Clinton | 2,218 (61.20%) | |
| Barack Obama | 1,249 (34.46%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 119 (3.28%) | |
Webster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 36,202. Its county seat is Marshfield. The county was organized in 1855 and named for U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster.
Webster County is part of the Springfield, MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Webster County was organized on March 3, 1855 and encompasses 590 miles of the highest extensive upland area of Missouri’s Ozarks. The judicial seat is Marshfield, which lies 1,490 feet above sea level. Webster County is the highest county seat in the state of Missouri. Pioneer Legislator John F. McMahan named the county and county seat for Daniel Webster, and his Marshfield, Massachusetts home.
Marshfield was laid out in 1856 by R.H. Pitts, on land that was given by C.F. Dryden and W.T. and B.F.T. Burford. Until a courthouse was built, the county business was conducted at Hazelwood where Joseph W. McClurg, later Governor of Missouri, operated a general store. Today’s Carthage Marble courthouse was built in 1939-1941 and is the county’s third.
During the U.S. Civil War, a small force of pro-Southern troops was driven out of Marshfield in February 1862, and ten months later a body of Confederates was routed east of town. On January 9, 1863, General Joseph O. Shelby’s troops burned the stoutly built Union fortification at Marshfield and at Sand Springs, evacuated earlier. By 1862, the telegraph line passed near Marshfield on a route later called the “Old Wire Road.”
In Webster County, straddling the divide between the Missouri and Arkansas rivers rise the headwaters of the James, Niangua, Gasconade, and Pomme de Terre rivers. A part of the 1808 Osage Native American land cession, the county was settled in the early 1830s by pioneers from Kentucky and Tennessee. A Native American trail crossed southern Webster County and many prehistoric mounds are in the area.
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