Daviess County, Missouri

Founding: 1836
Parent county: Unorganized territory

Namesake: Joseph Daveiss, Indiana militiaman
Seat: Gallatin (1837–)

Land area: 563 square miles

Population (2020): 8,430

Population (historic): 2,736 (1840); 9,606 (1860); 19,145 (1880); 21,325 (1900); 14,424 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1840–1900; 1970s; 1990–2010

Subdivisions: Five cities; four villages; one CDP; 15 townships

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 844 (20.1%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 22.4%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 3.3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 25.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.2%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,279
Average outbuilding value (1930): $959
Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.3 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,731
Average farm size (1920): 99.7 acres
Sources of settlement: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Virginia, and Pennsylvania
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Gallatin

Namesake: Albert Gallatin, U.S. treasury secretary

Founding: 1837 (platting); 1838 (post office); 1856 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 1,821

Population (historic): 448 (1860); 1,141 (1880); 1,780 (1900); 1,504 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1910; 1930s; 1950–1980; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 187 (21%)
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