Home › Missouri › St. Francois County

St. Francois County, Missouri

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

12historic places

—earliest paper

1821formed

66,922pop. 2020

81cemeteries

2CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Farmington, Bonne Terre, Park Hills.

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 St. Francois titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bonne Terre Depot	Bonne Terre	Building	1984
Bonne Terre Mine	Bonne Terre	Structure	1974
Courthouse Square Historic District	Farmington	District	2004
East Columbia Historic District	Farmington	District	2004
East Columbia Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Farmington	District	2007
Eugene Field School	Park Hills	Building	2005
Farmington State Hospital No. 4 Cemetery	Farmington	Site	2010
Howlett Gulf	Park Hills	Building	2019
McCormick, James Robinson, House	Farmington	Building	1998
Presbyterian Orphanage of Missouri	Farmington	District	2006
St. Francois County Jail and Sheriff's Residence	Farmington	Building	1996
St. Joe Lead Company Administration Building	Bonne Terre	Building	1984

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

St. Francois was formed in 1821 (1821-12-19) from Jefferson, Ste.

ST. FRANCOIS created from JEFFERSON, STE. GENEVIEVE, and WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,366	3,211	7,249	13,822	24,051	31,403	35,950	35,276	36,516	42,600	55,641	66,922

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 81 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams - Hillcrest Cemetery	37.97366	-90.54373
Adams Cemetery	37.85199	-90.61901
Aly Cemetery	38.02867	-90.63931
Appleberry Cemetery	37.99276	-90.51001
Ashburn Cemetery	37.93384	-90.47266
Barton Cemetery	37.8406	-90.4454
Bismarck Masonic Cemetery	37.78193	-90.6253
Byington Cemetery	37.95203	-90.44576
Coles Cemetery	38.00279	-90.61688
Copenhagen Cemetery	37.75282	-90.40178
Cruncleton Cemetery	37.94723	-90.41389
Cunningham Cemetery	37.84144	-90.43456
Cunningham Cemetery	37.86181	-90.46625
De Grant Cemetery	37.94338	-90.39956
Dent Cemetery	37.74588	-90.60957
Doe Run Memorial Cemetery	37.74472	-90.48793
Doughty Cemetery	37.76095	-90.41235
Farmington Masonic Cemetery North	37.79749	-90.39605
German Cemetery	37.74518	-90.52778
Germania Cemetery	37.92115	-90.61429
Gibson Cemetery	37.84921	-90.54318
Glenda Cemetery	37.7906	-90.38289
Grieder Cemetery	37.74341	-90.62333
Hall Cemetery	37.98789	-90.41308
Hamilton Cemetery	37.80915	-90.61598
Harris Cemetery	37.72186	-90.31987
Herbst Cemetery	37.70217	-90.45695
Herod Cemetery	37.88664	-90.49825
Highley - McHenry Cemetery	37.86072	-90.48423
Highley Cemetery	37.84539	-90.48634
Hillview Memorial Gardens	37.7631	-90.39761
Hunt Cemetery	37.79781	-90.43611
Iron Mountain Cemetery	37.69241	-90.63703
Jennings Cemetery	37.8485	-90.44715
Kerlagon Cemetery	37.94889	-90.38614
Knights of Pythias Cemetery	37.85892	-90.5305
Knob Lick Cemetery	37.67649	-90.37276
Kollmeyer Cemetery	37.74905	-90.41365
Layne Cemetery	37.82391	-90.54765
Leadwood Cemetery	37.88143	-90.58985
Lester Cemetery	38.03148	-90.44687
Libertyville Methodist Cemetery	37.706	-90.28441
Masonic Cemetery of Farmington	37.77578	-90.42067
Matkin Cemetery	37.76281	-90.52731
Mattie Roberts Memorial Cemetery	37.80219	-90.44213
McCreary Cemetery	37.94143	-90.41782
McDowell - Lenz Cemetery	37.68122	-90.16763
McHenry Cemetery	37.86977	-90.48434
Mitchell Cemetery	37.84889	-90.57957
Mostiller Cemetery	37.96707	-90.44038
Murphy Cemetery	37.75512	-90.40714
Murrill Cemetery	37.8803	-90.55566
Nativity Holy Virgin Mary Orthodox Church Cemetery	37.85986	-90.53035
New Calvary Cemetery	37.77	-90.42069
O'Bannon Cemetery	37.67623	-90.41385
Oaklawn Cemetery	37.84004	-90.48956
Odd Fellows Cemetery	None	None
Old Blackwell Cemetery	38.06244	-90.61736
Old Calvary Cemetery	37.77527	-90.42068
Parkview Cemetery	37.80478	-90.44323
Perret Cemetery	37.96671	-90.47706
Pinson Cemetery	38.04588	-90.63318
Rouggly Cemetery	38.00987	-90.4547
Saint Anne Cemetery	37.97318	-90.3896
Saint Francois Memorial Park	37.8934	-90.51371
Saint Francois Memorial Park	None	None
Saint Johns Cemetery	37.76754	-90.61179
Saint Joseph Cemetery	37.92838	-90.54429
Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery	37.77977	-90.39179
Sebastian Family Cemetery	37.69322	-90.31999
Settle Cemetery	37.95211	-90.5968
Shaner Cemetery	37.79593	-90.60314
Simpson Cemetery	37.6759	-90.25942
Smallpox Cemetery	37.88932	-90.53026
Weiss Cemetery	37.71784	-90.50077
Wesley Chapel Cemetery	37.73627	-90.29427
Westover Cemetery	37.88881	-90.63535
Workmens Cemetery	37.8594	-90.53124
Yeargain Cemetery	37.89282	-90.63262
Young Cemetery	37.84665	-90.42169

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Valley Forge	37.78533	-90.37346

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
Fort Davidson	1,054	26.6 km	MO021
Fredericktown	587	33.5 km	MO007

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for St. Francois County, Missouri

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.