Dunklin County

administration
Dunklin County Courthouse
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Kennett
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 188 Kennett, MO 63857-0188
Foundation :	February 14, 1845
Made up from:	Stoddard County
Area code :	001 573
Demographics
Residents :	31,953 (2010)
Population density :	22.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1417 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
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The Dunklin County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 31,953 residents and a population density of 22.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Kennett , which was named after the Mayor of St. Louis , Luther Martin Kennett , in 1851 . The county is a trading and manufacturing center for cotton , soybeans, and livestock .

geography

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	1229	-
1860	5026	309%
1870	5982	19%
1880	9604	60.5%
1890	15,085	57.1%
1900	21,706	43.9%
1910	30,328	39.7%
1920	32,773	8.1%
1930	35,799	9.2%
1940	44,957	25.6%
1950	45,329	0.8%
1960	39,139	-13.7%
1970	33,742	-13.8%
1980	36,324	7.7%
1990	33.112	-8.8%
2000	33,155	0.1%
2010	31,953	-3.6%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Dunklin County is located in the extreme southeast of Missouri, known as the Bootheel . The county borders the state of Arkansas to the south and west and has an area of 1,417 square kilometers, of which four square kilometers are water.

Dunklin County is the lowest point in the state of Missouri on the Saint Francis River , a tributary of the Mississippi that flows into Arkansas.

The following neighboring counties border Dunklin County:

Butler County	Stoddard County	New Madrid County
Clay County, Arkansas		Pemiscot County
Greene County, Arkansas	Craighead County, Arkansas	Mississippi County (Arkansas)

history

Dunklin County was formed on February 14, 1845 from parts of Stoddard County. It was named after Daniel Dunklin (1790-1844), a former governor of Missouri (1832-1836).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Dunklin County had 31,953 people in 13,253 households. The population density was 22.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.26 people lived in each of the 13,253 households.

The racial the population was composed of 85.1 percent white, 9.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.4 percent of the population.

25.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.5 percent were 65 years or older. 52.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 28,838 USD . The per capita income was $ 16,378. 24.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in Dunklin County

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Village

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Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partially in Pemiscot County}

structure

Dunklin County is divided into eight townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Buffalo Township	1383	29-09532
Clay Township	1453	29-14338
Cotton Hill Township	5755	29-16696
Freeborn Township	1775	29-25804
Holcomb Township	1496	29-32554
Independence Township	12,991	29-34390
Salem Township	2932	29-65252
Union Township	4168	29-74608