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Scott County, Missouri

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8historic places

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1822formed

38,059pop. 2020

47cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Sikeston, Commerce, Diehlstadt.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Anderson, Charles Isaac and Lizzie Hunter Moore, House	Commerce	Building	2006
Brown, E. L., Village and Mound Archeological Site	Diehlstadt	Site	1971
Commerce City Hall	Commerce	Building	2005
Lincoln School	Sikeston	Building	2024
Marshall Hotel	Sikeston	Building	1984
Sandy Woods Settlement Archeological Site	Diehlstadt	Site	1971
Scott County Courthouse	Benton	Building	2004
Sikeston St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Depot	Sikeston	Building	2000

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Scott was formed in 1822 (1822-03-01) from New Madrid.

SCOTT created from NEW MADRID.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Scott County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,136	5,974	5,247	8,587	13,092	23,409	30,377	32,842	32,748	39,647	40,422	38,059

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

47 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 47 of 47 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Ancell Cemetery	37.16815	-89.52049
Anderson Cemetery	37.15939	-89.44806
Bell Cemetery	37.15878	-89.6551
Bennifield Cemetery	36.96152	-89.61859
Blodgett Cemetery	37.00204	-89.52134
Bonhardt Cemetery	37.22616	-89.50036
Buggs Cemetery	37.01145	-89.66905
Carpenter Cemetery	36.96894	-89.62957
Cason Cemetery	37.03162	-89.4704
Clymer Cemetery	37.15239	-89.5098
Cobb Cemetery	36.91413	-89.57848
Commerce Cemetery	37.14654	-89.47154
Dennis Cemetery	37.12185	-89.67249
Dunn Cemetery	37.05715	-89.62964
Forrest Hills Memorial Gardens	37.05373	-89.62237
Friends Hill Cemetery	37.08782	-89.64091
Grays Point Cemetery	37.24085	-89.46961
Hart Cemetery	36.89873	-89.57176
Hickory Grove Cemetery	37.03876	-89.55229
Hunter Cemetery	36.9915	-89.61029
Lambert Cemetery	37.09339	-89.55145
Lightner Cemetery	37.2096	-89.4964
Maynard Cemetery	36.98347	-89.42163
Moore Cemetery	37.09472	-89.63101
Mount Zion Cemetery	37.21404	-89.51168
New Morley Cemetery	37.03829	-89.61586
Oakdale Cemetery	37.14532	-89.47397
Old Guardian Angel Cemetery	37.09442	-89.65394
Old Morley Cemetery	37.04779	-89.60817
Plainview Cemetery	37.09284	-89.77227
Pleasant Valley Cemetery	36.94184	-89.51337
Pollard Cemetery	37.06847	-89.49018
Prince Cemetery	37.12353	-89.4461
Rockview Cemetery	37.19887	-89.62155
Ross Family Cemetery	37.13414	-89.44426
Saint Ambrose Catholic Cemetery	37.17399	-89.64653
Saint Augustine Cemetery	None	None
Saint Denis Cemetery	37.09984	-89.56418
Saint Joseph Cemetery	37.21102	-89.49628
Sanders Family Cemetery	37.17064	-89.48202
Sikeston City Cemetery	36.86963	-89.58674
Spradlin Cemetery	37.1748	-89.49987
Thomas Cemetery	37.09366	-89.77175
Union Park Cemetery	37.17391	-89.6455
Unity Cemetery	37.06285	-89.49572
Warfield Cemetery	37.06402	-89.71268
Westerwell Cemetery	37.24103	-89.51269

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Grays Point	37.24033	-89.4687
Kenton	37.12417	-89.60472
New York	37.16672	-89.44481
Poor Farm	37.10005	-89.52758

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
Cape Girardeau	3,583	30.7 km	MO020

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

Historical markers

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