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By the act organizing Benton County, John Fisher of Pettis County, Thomas Kimsey of Rives County and James McCutcheon of Morgan County were appointed Commissioners to locate the county seat of the new county.
All of Benton County is a part of Missouri's 28th District in the Missouri Senate, which is represented by Sandy Crawford (R-Buffalo). A previous incumbent, Mike Parson , was elected Lieutenant Governor in 2016 and became Governor in 2018 following the resignation of Eric Greitens .
As the area grew and prospered, the court ordered the area to name a county seat for Benton County. After several years of heated disputes, Warsaw was declared the capitol in 1835, but it took seven more years for the name of Warsaw to become official.
Organized: Jan. 3, 1835. Named after: Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator. County seat: Warsaw. After Benton County organized in 1835, legislators appointed three commissioners to select the county seat.
- History of Benton County
- Geography: Land and Water
- Education
In the west-central part of Missouri, bounded on the north by Pettis County, on the east by Morgan and Camden Counties, on the south by Hickory County, and on the west by St. Clair and Henry Counties. Organized January 3, 1835, out of parts of Pettis and Greene Counties. Until 1845 Benton included the present Hickory County north of T. 36, and an a...
As reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 753 square miles (1,950 km2), of which 704 square miles (1,820 km2) is land and 48 square miles (120 km2) (6.4%) is water
Public schools
Cole Camp R-I School District - Cole Camp Lincoln R-II School District - Lincoln Warsaw R-IX School District - Warsaw
Private schools
Lutheran School Association - Cole Camp (K-08) - Lutheran It should be noted that most of the students who attend Cole Camp's Lutheran School Association attend either Benton County R-1 High in Cole Camp or Sacred Heart High School, a Catholic high school in the nearby city of Sedalia
After Benton County organized in 1835, legisla tors appointed three commissioners to select the county seat. However, the commissioners failed to act, and in January 1837 three new commissioners were instructed to locate' the county seat at a site as near the center of the county and the Osage River as could be found.
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Representations have been made to people south of the river that if they would vote to remove the county seat to Lincoln, the people north would vote to allow the south part of the county to be cut off to Hickory County and the south side would escape by Benton County debt.
