Buchanan County, Missouri

administration
The Buchanan County Courthouse in Saint Joseph, listed on NRHP No. 72001563
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Saint Joseph Saint Joseph, MO 64501-1731
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Buchanan County Courthouse 411 Jules Street
Foundation :	1839
Made up from:	Plate purchase
Area code :	816
Demographics
Residents :	89,201 (2010)
Population density :	84.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1074 km²
Water surface :	13 km²
map

Website : www.co.buchanan.mo.us

The Buchanan County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 89,201 people and a population density of 84.1 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Saint Joseph .

Buchanan County forms the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area with Counties Andrew and DeKalb in Missouri and Doniphan in Kansas .

geography

The county is located in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River , which forms the border with Kansas . It has a total area of 1074 square kilometers, of which 13 square kilometers are water surface. The following neighboring counties border Buchanan County:

Doniphan County, Kansas	Andrew County	DeKalb County
		Clinton County
Atchison County, Kansas	Platte County

history

James Buchanan

Buchanan County was formed on December 31, 1838 in the area that was added to the state of Missouri through the Platte Purchase .

After it was originally called Roberts County (after the settler Hiram Roberts), it was later named after James Buchanan (1791-1868), a former Secretary of State (1853-1856) and President (1857-1861) of the United States.

One place has the status of a National Historic Landmark , the Hotel Patee House . A total of 62 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 5, 2018).

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	6237	-
1850	12,975	108%
1860	23,861	83.9%
1870	38.109	59.7%
1880	49,702	30.4%
1890	70,100	41%
1900	121,838	73.8%
1910	93.020	-23.7%
1920	93,684	0.7%
1930	98,633	5.3%
1940	94,067	-4.6%
1950	96,826	2.9%
1960	90,581	-6.4%
1970	86,915	-4%
1980	87,888	1.1%
1990	83,083	-5.5%
2000	85.998	3.5%
2010	89.201	3.7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Buchanan County had 89,201 people in 33,082 households. The population density was 84.1 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.54 people lived in each of the 33,082 households.

The racial the population was composed of 89.1 percent white, 5.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.2 percent of the population.

23.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.0 percent were 65 years or older. 50.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 41,188 USD . The per capita income was $ 20,837. 15.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Buchanan County localities

Citys

0

Gower ²
Saint Joseph

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partly in Platte County

2 - partly in Clinton County}

structure

Buchanan County is divided into twelve townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Agency Township	1213	29-00316
Bloomington Township	674	29-06418
Center township	3049	29-12484
Crawford Township	914	29-17110
Jackson Township	547	29-35594
Lake Township	35	29-39800
Marion Township	1178	29-45938
Platte Township	502	29-58124
Rush Township	892	29-63542
Tremont Township	649	29-73798
Washington Township	78,865	29-77236
Wayne Township	683	29-77974