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Worth County, Missouri

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1861formed

1,973pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1983. Most listings are in or near Grant City.

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 Worth titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Worth Count Courthouse	Grant City	Building	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Worth was formed in 1861 (1861-02-25) from unknown / original county.

WORTH created from Non-County Area 34. Non-County Area 34 eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Worth County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,004	8,203	9,832	7,642	6,345	5,120	3,936	3,008	2,382	1,973

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

14 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barnes Cemetery	40.41045	-94.46061
Crim Cemetery	40.56105	-94.28176
Douglas Cemetery	40.53777	-94.28073
Fairview Cemetery	40.41929	-94.40518
Hoblett Cemetery	40.43247	-94.32893
Honey Grove Cemetery	40.55845	-94.4375
Isadora Cemetery	40.52274	-94.50375
Kent Cemetery	40.39001	-94.33879
Kirk Cemetery	40.49877	-94.2787
Koger Cemetery	40.38477	-94.21544
Petry Cemetery	40.52265	-94.23808
Sheridan Cemetery	40.51575	-94.5942
Smithton Cemetery	40.43583	-94.42363
Wharton Cemetery	40.43892	-94.36695

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams	40.51527	-94.25468
Iona City	40.57032	-94.54046

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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