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Clinton County
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county in Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- Founded
- January 2, 1833
- Named after
- DeWitt Clinton
- Seat
- Plattsburg
- Largest city
- Cameron
- Total
- 423 sq mi (1,100 km )
- Land
- 419 sq mi (1,090 km )
- Water
- 4.5 sq mi (12 km ) 1.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 21,661
- Density
- 50/sq mi (19/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .clintoncomo .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- DeWitt Clinton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Missouri
- Contains
- Plattsburg
- Capital
- Plattsburg
- Population
- 21184
- Area
- 1097
- Shares border with
- Buchanan County
- Official website
- www.clintoncomo.org
- Image
- Clinton County Missouri Courthouse 20191027-7055.jpg
- Households
- 8100
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- Commons category
- Clinton County, Missouri
- topic's main category
- Category:Clinton County, Missouri
- inception
- 1833-01-02
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Clinton County, Missouri
- different from
- Clinton
- water as percent of area
- 1.1
- native label
- Clinton County
- per capita income
- 28461
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Encyclopedic overview
Clinton County is county located in the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 21,184. Its county seat is Plattsburg. The county was organized January 2, 1833, and named for Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York. The county seat of Plattsburg derives its name from a town of a similar name that is the county seat of Clinton County, New York, which was also named for the Governor.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clinton County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.