Lafayette County, Missouri, United States

Details for Lafayette County

Name

Lafayette County

Place Type

County

Located in

Missouri, United States

County Seat

Lexington (Lexington Township)

Established

1825

Coordinates

Latitude		39.0666773		39° 04' 00" N
Longitude		-93.7835526		93° 47' 00.8" W

Population

31,107

Elevation

236 m

Surrounding Counties

Carroll NE
Saline E
Pettis SE
Johnson S
Jackson W
Ray NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

758508

Histopolis Place ID

950428955

Updated Jan 5

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Genealogy Resources for Lafayette County

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Lafayette County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Lafayette County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Lafayette/cem/ (2 Dec 2008)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Lafayette County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Lafayette County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Lafayette/ (6 Dec 2009)

Lafayette County, Missouri MO, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Lafayette 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=20416 (17 Nov 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1450 (11 Sep 2009)

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

Cemetery lafayette Co. MO USGenWeb Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/lafayette/lafaycem.htm (12 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Lafayette County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20416&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (2 Dec 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Lafayette 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/LA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Lafayette County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 26 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Lafayette County. You can navigate to any of the 26 survey townships that overlap Lafayette County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Lafayette County

8 Townships

Clay	Davis	Dover	Freedom
Lexington	Middleton	Sni-A-Bar	Washington

Cities of Lafayette County

15 Cities, 1 Town, 1 Village, 24 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alma (city)	Aullville (village)	Bates (city)	Berlin
Blackburn (city)	Chapel Hill	Concordia (city)	Corder (city)
Cuba	Dover (town)	Dover Station	Emma (city)
Ernestville	Fortyville (historical u.p.)	Freedom	Greenton
Harrisburg	Higginsville (city)	Hodge	Johnsons Grove Settlement
Lake Lafayette (city)	Lexington (city)	Mayview (city)	Moss
Mount Hope	Mount Vernon	Mulkey Grove	Myrick
Napoleon (city)	North Waverly	Oak Grove (city)	Oakland (historical u.p.)
Odessa (city)	Old Town	Page City	Riverton
Simpson	Tabeau	Waterloo	Waverly (city)
Wellington (city)

Cemeteries of Lafayette County

29 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Anderson	Bates City	Brand	Calvary
Campbell	Catron	Corder	Evangelical (Dover Township)
Evangelical (Freedom Township)	Forest Grove	Higginsville City	Lutheran
Maple	Martin	Mayview	Missouri State Veterans (* Higginsville) †
Missouri Veterans (Higginsville) †	Mitchell	Mount Tabor United Methodist	New Hope
Odessa	Page	Pleasant Grove	Pleasant Prairie
Poole	Republican	Saint Johns	Sharp
Shore	Slusher	St. Johns (*)

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