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Daviess County
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county in Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- Founded
- December 29, 1836
- Named after
- Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess
- Seat
- Gallatin
- Largest city
- Gallatin
- Total
- 569 sq mi (1,470 km )
- Land
- 563 sq mi (1,460 km )
- Water
- 5.8 sq mi (15 km ) 1.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,558
- Density
- 15.2/sq mi (5.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .daviesscountymo .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Joseph Hamilton Daveiss
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Missouri
- Contains
- Gallatin
- Capital
- Gallatin
- Population
- 8430
- Area
- 1474
- Shares border with
- Caldwell County
- Official website
- www.daviesscountymo.gov
- Image
- DAVIESS COUNTY COURTHOUSE.jpg
- Households
- 3002
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- water as percent of area
- 1
- Commons category
- Daviess County, Missouri
- topic's main category
- Category:Daviess County, Missouri
- native label
- Daviess County
- inception
- 1836-12-29
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Daviess County, Missouri
- different from
- Davison County
- per capita income
- 24987
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Encyclopedic overview
Daviess County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,430. Its county seat is Gallatin. The county was organized December 29, 1836, from Ray County and named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, a soldier from Kentucky who was killed in 1811 at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
The county includes the town of Jamesport, which has the largest Amish community in Missouri.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daviess County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.