Wayne County (Missouri)
The Wayne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, the County had 13,521 inhabitants and a population density of 6.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Greenville.
Geography
The County is located in southeastern Missouri on the eastern edge of the Ozark Plateau, about 50 miles from Arkansas is in the south away and has an area of 2005 square kilometers, of which 34 square kilometers are water surface.
The Wayne County is drained by the St. Francis River, which is dammed at the border of Butler County to Lake Wappapello.
At the Wayne County border Nachbarcountys following:
Reserves
- Mark Twain State Park ( part)
- Mingo National Wildlife Refuge ( part)
History
The first white settlers arrived in 1800 from the eastern U.S. in the region of present-day Wayne County. The first settlements were the still existing places Patterson and Greenville, which formally came under the then prevailing Spanish colonial authorities.
The Wayne County was formed in 1818 from parts of Cape Girardeau County and Lawrence County in what was then Missouri Territory. It was named (1745-1796), a general in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War after General Anthony Wayne.
1943 Wappapello Dam was completed and thus created the Lake Wappapello.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Wayne County 13,521 people in 5838 households. The population density was 6.9 people per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 97.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 5838 households lived statistically 2.29 per person.
20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 30,621. The per capita income was $ 17,105. 19.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Wayne County
Citys
- Greenville
- Piedmont
- Williamsville
Village
- Mill Spring
Unincorporated communities
- Beckville
- Bounds
- Brunot
- Burbank
- Burch
- Cascade
- Clubb
- Coldwater
- Gads Hill
- Gravelton
- Hiram
- Holliday Landing
- Keener Cave
- Kime
- Leeper
- Lodi
- Lowndes
- McGee
- Missionary Acres
- Patterson
- Shook
- Silva
- Upalika
- Wappapello
Structure
The Wayne County is divided into ten townships: