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St. Louis city, Missouri

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0historic places

—earliest paper

1876formed

301,578pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

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

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

St. Louis City was formed in 1876 (1876-10-22) from St.

ST. LOUIS CITY created from ST. LOUIS county.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

St. Louis city population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
350,518	575,238	772,897	816,048	856,796	750,026	453,085	348,189	301,578

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.
jeff	Park unit	5.2 km
ulsg	Park unit	13.3 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bellefontaine Cemetery	38.69143	-90.23038
Bethlehem Cemetery	None	None
Calvary Cemetery	38.70338	-90.23816
Concordia Cemetery	38.57505	-90.26427
Gatewood Gardens Cemetery	38.56754	-90.29427
Holy Trinity Cemetery	None	None
Nazareth Cemetery	None	None
Old Saint Marcus Cemetery	38.5706	-90.28094
Rock Springs Cemetery	None	None
Saint Matthew Cemetery	38.57393	-90.27205
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery	38.56505	-90.2865
Western Lutheran Cemetery	38.67136	-90.24478

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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