History about Barry County Missouri...
Barry County is a county located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 34,534. Its county seat is Cassville.
The county was organized in 1835 and Barry County began operation as a political subdivision of
Missouri. The newly formed county contained the present counties of Barry,
Lawrence, Dade, McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton and a part of Cedar County
and came into being as the result of action by the 1834 state legislature.
It was a newly formed county and was named in honor of Thomas Barry, who at
one time was the Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Andrew
Jackson.
Its first county seat
was located at Mount Pleasant and was located on Clear Creek just west of
present day Pierce City. By 1845 Lawrence County
was formed and so the county seat was no longer in the geographic center of
Barry County. The new seat was formed in what is now Cassville and housed
in the William Kerr residence. William Kerr owned the 50 acres which
encompassed the town of Cassville in 1845.
Communities:
Barry County has 8 cities, 4 Villages, 3 'Census-designated' places, 20 unincorporated communities and 25 'townships'.
Villages: |
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- Chain-O-Lakes
- Emerald Beach
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Census-designated places |
- Eagle Rock
- Golden
- Shell Knob (partly in Stone County)
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Other unincorporated communities: |
- Cato
- Corsicana
- Jenkins
- Leann
- Lohmer
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- Madry
- Mayflower
- McDowell
- Mineral Spring
- Osa
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- Pasley
- Pioneer
- Pleasant Ridge
- Pulaskifield
- Ridgely
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- Sholten
- Travers
- Viola
- Wheelerville
- Yonkerville
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Townships |
- Ash
- Butterfield
- Capps Creek
- Corsicana
- Crane Creek
- Exeter
- Flat Creek
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- Jenkins
- Kings Prairie
- Liberty
- McDonald
- McDowell
- Mineral
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- Monett
- Mountain
- Ozark
- Pioneer
- Pleasant Ridge
- Purdy
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- Roaring River
- Shell Knob
- Sugar Creek
- Washburn
- Wheaton
- White River
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