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Butler County
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county in Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- Founded
- February 27, 1849
- Named after
- William Orlando Butler
- Seat
- Poplar Bluff
- Largest city
- Poplar Bluff
- Total
- 699 sq mi (1,810 km )
- Land
- 695 sq mi (1,800 km )
- Water
- 4.3 sq mi (11 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 41,904
- Density
- 60.6/sq mi (23.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- butlercountymo .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Butler County is a county located in the southeast Ozark Foothills Region in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census, the county's population was 42,130. The largest city and county seat is Poplar Bluff. The county was officially organized from Wayne County on February 27, 1849, and is named after former U.S. Representative William O. Butler (D-Kentucky), who was also an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States. The first meeting in the Butler County Courthouse was held on June 18, 1849.
Butler County comprises the Poplar Bluff, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Butler County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.