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McDonald County, Missouri

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4historic places

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1847formed

23,303pop. 2020

13cemeteries

3CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1999. Most listings are in or near Pineville, Powell.

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 McDonald titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Old McDonald County Courthouse	Pineville	Building	2012
Old McDonald County Jail	Pineville	Building	2020
Pineville Site	Pineville	Site	1999
Powell Bridge	Powell	Structure	2011

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mcdonald was formed in 1847 (1847-01-01) from Newton.

SENECA (now McDONALD) created from NEWTON; SENECA not fully organized, attached to NEWTON "for all civil and military purposes."

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

McDonald County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,236	4,038	7,816	13,574	14,690	15,749	14,144	11,798	14,917	21,681	23,303

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
peri	Park unit	35.0 km
gwca	Park unit	39.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

13 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cowan Cemetery	36.60572	-94.21461
Cummings Chapel Cemetery	36.66812	-94.6041
Fairview Cemetery	36.58872	-94.61733
Keenan Cemetery	36.6527	-94.60489
Langley Cemetery	36.625	-94.57421
Manning Cemetery	36.59606	-94.57764
Mitchell Cemetery	36.66229	-94.54494
Price Cemetery	36.74623	-94.5247
Rinehart Cemetery	36.74804	-94.60514
Saratoga Cemetery	36.5506	-94.58337
Southwest City Cemetery	36.52675	-94.61523
Stone Cemetery	36.57837	-94.5141
Williams - Hays Cemetery	36.601	-94.61395

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Enterprise	36.67229	-94.60856

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

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Newtonia	943	29.6 km	MO016
Pea Ridge	12,007	30.9 km	AR001
Newtonia	1,523	31.7 km	MO029

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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