Mercer County
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Mercer County is located on the Missouri-Iowa border in the northern part of Missouri, bounded on the north by the State of Iowa, east by Putnam and Sullivan Counties, south by Grundy County, and west by Harrison County. U.S. Highway 136 runs east/west and Highway 65 runs north/south through the middle of the county . It is a largely rural county known for it's great hunting and recreational value. The population is currently around 4,000 persons.
In 1841, when Grundy County was organized, what is now Mercer was included within its limits, and Brigadier General Hugh Mercer remained so until a legislative act, approved February 14th, 1845, organized Mercer county which was named in honor of General Hugh Mercer, of Revolutionary War fame.
It is not known that any white man settled in the territory now Mercer County until 1837, and up to that time the land was the hunting place of tribes of Fox, Sioux and Pottawottomie Indians.
The first to visit the county were traders, who made no permanent residence, but would spend a few months each year in bartering for the peltries of the Indians.
In 1837 a few families, who had for a time lived in older settled sections of Missouri, moved in the country which was then a part of the newly organized County of Livingston.
The United States Supreme Court settled the state line boundary dispute with a survey of the original 1837 boundary position. The line is marked by two posts set ten miles apart, one marker is still located west of Lineville.
In 1847 the county seat was located at Princeton, which was named after the place at which was fought the historic battle in which General Mercer lost his life.
Mercer County's Courthouse burned on March 24, 1898 and was rebuilt in 1912.
Mercer
County is divided into nine townships:
Harrison, Lindley, Madison,
Marion, Medicine, Morgan, Ravanna, Somerset, Washington.
County seat and zip code: Princeton 64673
County population: 4,004
Square miles: 454
| Presiding Commissioner, Clifford Shipley | (660)748-3425 |
| Commissioner, First District, Shane Grooms | (660)748-3425 |
| Commissioner, Second District, Kenneth Wilson | (660)748-3425 |
| Clerk Circuit Court and ex officio Recorder of Deeds, Pat Stamper | (660)748-4232 |
| Clerk County Commission, Judy Hamilton | (660)748-3425 |
| Prosecuting Attorney, John Young | (660)748-3477 |
| Sheriff, Duane Hobbs | (660)748-3165 |
| Assessor, Norberta DeMoss | (660)748-3511 |
| Treasurer and ex officio Collector of Revenue, Susan Moore | (660)748-3435 |
| Coroner, Michael Greenlee | (660)748-3319 |
| Public Administrator, Carolyn Sealine | (660)748-3640 |
State Representative-District
No. 3, Seat Vacant.
State Senator-District No. 12, David Klindt.
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University of Missouri
Extension Mercer County Jincksk@missouri.edu This page was last updated 09/14/2009 |
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