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Reynolds County, Missouri

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2historic places

—earliest paper

1845formed

6,096pop. 2020

76cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1998. Most listings are in or near Black, Ellington.

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 Reynolds titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Buford-Carty Farmstead	Black	Building	2004
Civil War Fortification at Barnesville	Ellington	Structure	1998

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Reynolds was formed in 1845 (1845-02-25) from Shannon, Wayne.

REYNOLDS created from SHANNON and WAYNE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,849	3,173	5,722	8,161	10,106	9,370	6,918	5,161	7,230	6,689	6,096

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.
ozar	Park unit	39.1 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

76 cemeteries and 8 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 76 of 76 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alwood Cemetery	37.07874	-90.79283
Asher Cemetery	37.5882	-91.05554
Barton Cemetery	37.58199	-91.13063
Bethlehem Cemetery	37.14326	-90.93431
Black River Cemetery	37.52964	-90.94154
Brown Cemetery	37.53415	-90.98262
Buffington Cemetery	37.23004	-90.78925
Bunker Cemetery	37.45441	-91.20234
Burnham Cemetery	37.15977	-91.00693
Callahan Cemetery	37.50966	-91.16602
Carpenter Cemetery	37.28171	-90.86178
Carty Cemetery	37.51908	-90.93435
Chapman Cemetery	37.58895	-90.84631
Chitwood Cemetery	37.19725	-90.97248
Copeland Cemetery	37.12242	-90.87106
Corridon - Reynolds Memorial Park	37.38873	-91.07356
Davis Cemetery	37.45143	-91.11762
Dickson Cemetery	37.2035	-90.96735
Dobbins Cemetery	37.43961	-90.82451
Doe Run Cemetery	37.15105	-90.84854
Durham Cemetery	37.34837	-90.90307
Ellington Memorial Cemetery	37.18803	-90.95413
Estep Cemetery	37.48001	-91.15454
Fitzgerald Cemetery	37.58723	-90.80735
Gulliams Cemetery	37.3184	-90.7736
Hampton Cemetery	37.28793	-90.85743
Hasty Cemetery	37.58145	-90.85526
Helvey Cemetery	37.12707	-90.87096
Howell Cemetery	37.45961	-90.97366
Huda Chitwood Cemetery	37.2741	-91.11247
Hyatts Creek Cemetery	37.40095	-90.78628
Imboden Cemetery	37.23614	-90.997
James Wesley Lewis Cemetery	37.31183	-90.78171
Johnson Cemetery	37.45192	-90.95708
Lesterville Memorial Cemetery	37.44409	-90.83326
Little Radford Cemetery	37.4867	-91.05959
Luenbergen Cemetery	37.57794	-90.93192
Mann Cemetery	37.3039	-90.77802
Mayers Cemetery	37.47726	-91.01762
Morris Cemetery	37.23912	-90.90303
Murphy Cemetery	37.24957	-90.76184
Myers Cemetery	37.56355	-91.0197
Newton Cemetery	37.23729	-90.99485
Nuckols Cemetery	37.28699	-91.12484
Odell Cemetery	37.10875	-90.93302
Old Redford Cemetery	37.32409	-90.9037
Parker Cemetery	37.58969	-91.2624
Parks Cemetery	37.47341	-91.18818
Pinedale Cemetery	37.20572	-90.8697
Potter Cemetery	37.10876	-90.8549
Pratt Cemetery	37.23298	-90.96138
Price Cemetery	37.33436	-90.92627
Pumpkin Hollow Cemetery	37.20994	-91.06866
Pyles Cemetery	37.32791	-90.99095
Radford Cemetery	37.56337	-91.24529
Ratliff Cemetery	37.26075	-90.9731
Rayfield Cemetery	37.4855	-90.89929
Robinett Cemetery	37.54955	-90.92035
Rutter Cemetery	37.34904	-90.77694
Santhuff Cemetery	37.33062	-91.01408
Seematter Cemetery	37.2143	-90.7684
Skiles Cemetery	37.13322	-90.84308
Smith Cemetery	37.10707	-90.99871
Smith Cemetery	37.5643	-91.1021
Smith Pine Valley Cemetery	37.13954	-90.98949
Strickland Cemetery	37.60133	-90.99946
Sutterfield Cemetery	37.3627	-91.12457
Tarvid Cemetery	37.37561	-91.04784
Taum Sauk Cemetery	37.51419	-90.80817
Trolinger Cemetery	37.59282	-91.04623
Troutman Cemetery	37.60098	-90.96171
Upper Doe Run Cemetery	37.19215	-90.91014
Webb Cemetery	37.54846	-91.00588
Webb Cemetery	37.09705	-90.815
Weible Cemetery	37.44087	-91.07818
West Fork Cemetery	37.49239	-91.10221

Historical populated places — 8 of 8

Name	Lat	Lon
Alamode	37.3131	-90.99624
Bunker Camp	37.50643	-91.25347
Dairyville	37.34866	-91.08318
Helvey	37.12533	-90.87123
Oakdale	37.3406	-91.06513
Pinkley	37.50227	-90.82651
Riverside	37.23838	-90.7704
Webb	37.13894	-90.87207

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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