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Lincoln County, Missouri

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
5historic places
—earliest paper
1819formed
59,574pop. 2020
158cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Elsberry, Troy, Winfield.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Missouri is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lincoln titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Camp Sherwood Forest Historic DistrictElsberryDistrict1985
Cuivre River State Park Administrative Area Historic DistrictElsberryDistrict1985
Downtown Troy Historic DistrictTroyDistrict2013
Lock and Dam No. 25 Historic DistrictWinfieldDistrict2004
Old Rock HouseMoscow MillsBuilding1972

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lincoln was formed in 1819 (1819-01-01) from St.

LINCOLN created from ST. CHARLES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lincoln County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

60k31k1,6621820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,6627,44914,21017,42618,35215,95614,39513,47814,78322,19338,94459,574

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

158 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 158 listed
NameLatLon
Admire Cemetery38.98584-90.78597
Alexander Cemetery39.03344-90.8897
Anson Cemetery38.99635-91.22534
Argent Cemetery39.00876-90.79859
Ashbury Chapel Cemetery39.04599-90.86105
Auburn Cemetery39.12513-90.97488
Beck CemeteryNoneNone
Bernhard CemeteryNoneNone
Berry-Mitchell CemeteryNoneNone
Bethany Cemetery39.02893-90.77262
Bohmer CemeteryNoneNone
Boyles CemeteryNoneNone
Bradshaw CemeteryNoneNone
Bray Cemetery38.97393-90.87846
Bricker Cemetery39.05143-90.99836
Brinegar Cemetery39.18856-91.14481
Briscoe Cemetery39.08671-91.01124
Brown CemeteryNoneNone
Brown CemeteryNoneNone
Bryants Creek Cemetery39.13836-90.90811
Cannon Cemetery38.98476-91.15209
Cannon Cemetery39.18199-90.85913
CantrielNoneNone
Carter Cemetery38.90384-90.93182
Clare Cemetery39.09115-91.05152
Clare CemeteryNoneNone
Clark CemeteryNoneNone
Clark CemeteryNoneNone
Cochran Cemetery39.12203-90.97466
Compton Cemetery38.92082-90.91909
Copenhaven Cemetery39.19376-91.11596
Copher Cemetery38.99503-91.16891
Corinth Cemetery39.05435-90.75556
Corner Stone Cemetery39.18251-91.05966
Cox Cemetery39.11714-91.04377
Cox Cemetery39.13598-90.85481
Cox CemeteryNoneNone
Crume Spring CemeteryNoneNone
Davis Cemetery39.11505-90.89129
Dodson Cemetery39.061-90.90745
Douglas Cemetery38.99198-91.07652
Downing Cemetery39.11131-90.88317
Downing Cemetery39.13172-90.94613
Duey CemeteryNoneNone
Dyer CemeteryNoneNone
East Cemetery38.97231-91.05882
Edward Lanier Cemetery38.90297-90.88566
Ellis Cemetery39.15264-90.98859
Elmore Cemetery38.95365-91.13459
Elsberry Cemetery39.14265-90.89047
Elsberry Cemetery39.16058-90.80039
Fairview Cemetery39.17059-91.14097
Finley CemeteryNoneNone
Foley CemeteryNoneNone
Frieden Cemetery38.92088-90.92652
Gladney Cemetery39.12067-90.92984
Grimes CemeteryNoneNone
Guthrie Cemetery39.00128-91.01498
Halley - Liles Cemetery39.19751-90.96154
Halley Cemetery39.20842-90.90027
Hamilton Cemetery39.12292-90.90565
Hammonds CemeteryNoneNone
Harmony Grove Cemetery39.07309-90.91604
Harvey Cemetery38.92118-91.09435
Harvey CemeteryNoneNone
Hawk Point Cemetery38.97503-91.14498
Highland Prairie Cemetery38.94622-90.81716
Hopkins Cemetery39.0607-90.90759
Hopkins CemeteryNoneNone
Houston CemeteryNoneNone
Howdeshell Cemetery39.13913-90.93848
Howell Cemetery39.00494-91.0396
Hubbard Cemetery38.9128-90.94026
Hunter Cemetery39.01426-91.06686
Imaculate Conception CemeteryNoneNone
Indian Camp Cemetery38.88881-91.04285
Indian Cemetery (historical)NoneNone
Jamieson Cemetery39.18952-91.13253
Jonathan Davis CemeteryNoneNone
Kessler CemeteryNoneNone
Historical populated places — 7 of 7
NameLatLon
Burr Oak39.05922-90.76401
Chantilly38.9981-90.84319
Highview38.95561-90.80957
Linns Mills38.94477-91.05598
Mashek39.00421-91.07598
New Salem39.01362-90.7991
Owen38.91894-90.86513

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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