County of Stoddard

The county of Stoddard (Stoddard county) is a county of the Missouri to the the United States. The seat of the county is located at Bloomfield. The county goes back to 1835 and it was named in homage to the first territorial commander of the High Louisiana Amos Stoddard. With the census of 2000, the population consisted of 29.705 individuals.

Geography

According to the Office of the census of the United States, the county adds up a surface 2.147 km ² including 5 km ² of water.

Close counties

County of Bollinger (northern)
County of Cape-Girardeau (north-eastern)
County of Scott (Missouri) (north-eastern)
County of New Madrid (south-eastern)
County of Dunklin (southern)
County of Butler (Missouri) (south-western)
County of Wayne (Missouri) (north-western)

Main roads

U.S. Road 60
Missouri Road 25
Missouri Road 51
Missouri Road 153

Demography

According to the census of 2000, out of the 29.705 inhabitants, one found 12.064 households and 8.480 families in the county. The population density was of 14 inhabitants per km ² and the density of dwellings (13.221 on the whole) was of 6 dwellings per km ². The population was made up of 97,34% of white, of 0,91% Afro-Americans, 0,40% of Amerindians and 0,09% the Asian ones.

30,50% of the households had children of less than 18 years, 57,4% were married couples. 23,9% of the population had less than 18 years, 8,5% between 18 and 24 years, 26,3% between 25 and 44 years, 24,1% between 45 and 64 years and 17,2% above 65 years. The Middle Age was 39 years. The proportion of women was of 100 per 92,6 men.

The average revenue of a household was of 26.987 dollars.

History

Colonized in 1723, the area was previously inhabited by Apaches. When 1.029 European colonists perished at the time of the massacre of “Little Dixie” in 1798, colonization was pushed back 24 years.

In the years 1990, the county was invaded clandestine laboratories realizing of the amphetamines.

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