Wayne County, Missouri

administration
Wayne County Courthouse
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Greenville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 48 Greenville, MO 63944-0048
Foundation :	1818
Made up from:	Cape Girardeau County and Lawrence County
Area code :	001 573
Demographics
Residents :	13,521 (2010)
Population density :	6.9 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2005 km²
Water surface :	34 km²
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The Wayne County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 13,521 residents and a population density of 6.9 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Greenville .

geography

Lake Wappapello

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1820	1443	-
1830	3264	126.2%
1840	3403	4.3%
1850	4518	32.8%
1860	5620	24.4%
1870	6068	8th %
1880	9096	49.9%
1890	11,927	31.1%
1900	15,309	28.4%
1910	15,181	-0.8%
1920	13,012	-14.3%
1930	12,243	-5.9%
1940	12,794	4.5%
1950	10,514	-17.8%
1960	8638	-17.8%
1970	8546	-1.1%
1980	11,277	32%
1990	11,543	2.4%
2000	13,259	14.9%
2010	13,521	2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The county is located in southeast Missouri on the eastern edge of the Ozark Plateau , is about 50 km from Arkansas in the south and has an area of 2005 square kilometers, of which 34 square kilometers are water.

Wayne County is traversed by the St. Francis River , which is dammed on the border of Butler County to Lake Wappapello .

The following neighboring counties border Wayne County:

Iron County	Madison County
Reynolds County		Bollinger County
Carter County	Butler County	Stoddard County

Protected areas

Mark Twain State Park (partially)
Mingo National Wildlife Refuge (partially)

history

A. Wayne

The first white settlers came to what is now Wayne County from the eastern United States around 1800. The first settlements were the still existing places Patterson and Greenville , which were formally subordinate to the then still ruling Spanish colonial authorities.

Wayne County was formed in 1818 from parts of Cape Girardeau County and Lawrence County in what was then the Missouri Territory . It was named after General Anthony Wayne (1745–1796), a general in the Continental Army in the American War of Independence .

In 1943, the Wappapello Dam was completed, creating Lake Wappapello.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Wayne County had 13,521 people in 5,838 households. The population density was 6.9 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 97.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.0 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.29 people lived in each of the 5838 households.

20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 30,621 USD . The per capita income was $ 17,105. 19.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Wayne County localities

Citys

Village

Mill Spring

Unincorporated Communities

structure

Wayne County is divided into ten townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Benton Township	3796	29-04816
Black River Township	711	29-06112
Cedar Creek Township	448	29-12304
Cowan Township	627	29-16966
Jefferson Township	289	29-36987
Logan Township	1486	29-43616
Lost Creek Township	2288	29-44120
Mill Spring Township	908	29-48404
St. Francois Township	2094	29-64334
Williams Township	874	29-79972