Dent County, Missouri, United States

Details for Dent County

Name

Dent County

Place Type

County

Located in

Missouri, United States

County Seat

Salem (Spring Creek East Township)

Established

1851

Coordinates

Latitude		37.6333771		37° 38' 00.2" N
Longitude		-91.5168135		91° 31' 00.5" W

Population

13,702

Elevation

353 m

Surrounding Counties

Crawford NE
Washington NE
Iron E
Reynolds SE
Shannon S
Texas SW
Phelps NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

758487

Histopolis Place ID

182939186

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Dent County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

The USGenWeb Archives Project - Dent County, Missouri: Cemetery Records [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/dent/dentcem.htm (5 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Dent County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20239&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (14 Jan 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Dent County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Dent County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Dent/ (5 Dec 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1429 (1 Sep 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Dent County, Mo. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/DE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Dent County, Missouri MO, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Dent County, Missouri MO, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20239 (17 Nov 2008)

Dent County, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_County,_Missouri (28 Jul 2010)

Dent County, Missouri Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Dent County, Missouri
http://www.interment.net/us/mo/dent.htm (16 May 2010)

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Surveys in Dent County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 21 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Dent County. You can navigate to any of the 21 survey townships that overlap Dent County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Dent County

14 Townships

Current	Franklin	Gladden	Linn
Meramec	Norman	Osage	Short Bend
Sinking (historical township)	Spring Creek (historical township)	Spring Creek East	Spring Creek West
Texas	Watkins

Cities of Dent County

2 Cities, 47 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Anutt	Ark	Bangert	Boscobel (historical u.p.)
Boss	Bunker (city)	Celina	Condray
Cooksey	Coulstone	Custer	Darien
Deep Ford	Dent Ford (historical u.p.)	Doss	Eden
Falk Mill (historical u.p.)	Fawn	Gila	Gladden
Halcyon	Hedrick	Hobson	Howes
Howes Mill	Jack	Jadwin	Joy
Junction Lookout (historical u.p.)	Lake Spring	Lecoma	Lenox
Max	Montauk	Mounce	North Lenox
Pleasant Hill	Ranger	Rhyse	Rufus
Salem (city)	Short Bend (historical u.p.)	Sligo	Smoky Hollow
Stone Hill	Sylvan	Turtle	Twane
West Bunker

Cemeteries of Dent County

83 Cemeteries, 9 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Anutt	Baker-Campbell Plot (*)	Barnes	Bedwell
Berry	Bethel	Bingham	Blackwell
Bonebrake Chapel (*)	Bowers	Brook	Cage-Lane
Camden	Campbell	Carty	Cavanaugh
Cedar Grove	Chatman	Cooksey	Copeland
Coppedge	Cotner	Dent	Dry Fork
Edgar	Ellis	Ellis	Empire
Enke	Enon	Fiebelman	Fraser
Freeman	Gibbs	Gray	Gregory
Halbrook (Franklin Township)	Halbrook (Gladden Township)	Hanning	Headrick
Hight	Hughes	Hutson-Walker	Inman
Johi	Johns	Johnson	Karns (*)
Kissock	Kitchen	Kittenger	Lake Spring
Lay	Leonard Graveyard (*)	Love	Lucas
Maledy	McCarter	McNeill	Michell 2 (*)
Miller	Miner	Mitchell	Morrison
Mounce	Northlawn	Old Craddock (*)	Pace
Paterson	Pinto	Plank	Pryor
Robnett	Scotia	Stagner	Stone Hill †
Swiney	Thorpe	Togleson	Tune
Upper Morrison (*)	Victor (*)	Wagner	Wagoner (*)
Walker	Wallace	Warden	Weber
White	Wofford	Woolford	Wright

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