Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
63historic places
—earliest paper
1838formed
84,793pop. 2020
52cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 63 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near St. Joseph, Saint Joseph, Rushville.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.
County formation
Newberry AHCB
Buchanan was formed in 1838 (1838-12-31) from unknown / original county.
BUCHANAN (Mo.) created by Missouri from non-county area. Due to shifting course of the Missouri River (esp. after the 1944 flood), BUCHANAN (Mo.), at its creation, included territory now in present Kansas. Such bdry changes are not generally mapped here.
Buchanan County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
6,237
23,861
49,792
121,838
93,684
94,067
96,826
90,581
87,888
85,998
84,793
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
52 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 52 of 52 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Allen Cemetery
39.60277
-94.60217
Antioch Cemetery
39.61777
-94.86358
Armstrong Cemetery
39.59621
-95.00779
Ashland Cemetery
39.78677
-94.82527
B'nai Sholem Cemetery
39.81911
-94.79933
Bethel Cemetery
39.6318
-94.90908
Blakely Cemetery
39.74098
-94.70373
Bowen Cemetery
39.78078
-94.65094
Brinton Cemetery
39.61177
-94.7399
Courtney Cemetery
39.77234
-94.71393
Faucett Cemetery
39.59916
-94.79442
Feuquay Cemetery
39.68404
-94.77269
Frazier Cemetery
39.61727
-94.67491
Gore Cemetery
39.54893
-95.01457
Hebron Cemetery
39.58499
-94.65689
Hudspeth Cemetery
39.56921
-95.03587
Judy Cemetery
39.53332
-94.84477
Karns Cemetery
39.69669
-94.74827
Kerlin Cemetery
39.62479
-94.96625
Minor Cemetery
39.75333
-94.68263
Mount Auburn Cemetery
39.78751
-94.81388
Mount Mora Cemetery
39.77534
-94.842
Mount Moriah Cemetery
39.63141
-94.64517
Mount Olivet Cemetery
39.79717
-94.83162
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
39.56499
-94.74579
Moxley Cemetery
39.7166
-94.65405
Nelson Cemetery
39.72011
-94.80588
New Harmony Cemetery
39.6651
-94.60873
New King Hill Cemetery
39.70307
-94.85726
Number 6 Cemetery
39.57527
-94.68995
Old Sparta Cemetery
39.65329
-94.82424
Ozenberger Cemetery
39.80496
-94.74595
Parker Cemetery
39.6622
-94.81659
Peter A Jones Cemetery
39.5552
-94.93412
Pine Cemetery
39.68841
-94.7575
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
39.68154
-94.83077
Richardson Cemetery
39.53256
-94.82643
Saint Joseph Cemetery Old
39.73725
-94.637
Saint Joseph Memorial Park
39.7824
-94.77952
Saint Josephs Cemetery
39.72916
-94.64078
Saint Marys Cemetery
39.79709
-94.6302
Sparta Cemetery
39.6523
-94.83529
Sugar Creek Cemetery
39.55722
-95.00236
Tobin Cemetery
39.55782
-94.67474
Turner Cemetery
39.55499
-94.81579
Union Cemetery
39.59202
-94.86219
Walnut Grove Cemetery
39.70487
-94.77504
West Lawn Cemetery
39.58779
-94.92805
Williams Cemetery
39.54022
-94.78874
Willis Cemetery
39.54832
-94.84718
Witt Cemetery
39.58794
-94.6401
Yates Cemetery
39.59832
-94.76079
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
Name
Lat
Lon
Ashton
39.72194
-94.83441
Stockbridge
39.75138
-94.66663
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
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