Missouri Territory
| Territory of Missouri | |||||||||||||||||
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• Renaming of Territory of Arkansas created | March 2, 1819 | ||||||||||||||||
• Missouri statehood | August 10 1821 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Territory of Missouri was an
Territory of Arkansas was created from a portion of its southern area. In 1821, a southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri
, and the rest became unorganized territory for several years.
History
The Missouri Territory was originally known as the
U.S. Congress on June 4, 1812, to avoid confusion with the new state of Louisiana, which had been admitted to the Union
on April 30, 1812.
On October 1, 1812, Governor Clark organized the five administrative districts of the former Louisiana Territory into the first five counties of the Missouri Territory.
The
Convention of 1818 and the Adams–Onís Treaty would be the last significant losses of United States territory from the contiguous United States, although the cession of lands north of the 49th parallel would turn out to be the only permanent cession of U.S. territory (the territories ceded to Spain would be re-taken by the U.S. following the Texas annexation and the Mexican–American War
).
On March 2, 1819, all of the Missouri Territory south of the
Territory of Arkansaw
. (The spelling of Arkansaw would be changed a few years later, although the proper pronunciation of the name would be debated until 1881.) The southeastern portion of the Missouri Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri on August 10, 1821.
St. Louis was the capital of the Missouri Territory.[2]
The remaining portion of the territory, consisting of the present states of
territories were created in whole or in part from its remaining area: Iowa (1838), Minnesota (1849), Kansas and Nebraska (both 1854), Colorado and Dakota (both 1861), Idaho (1863), Montana (1864), and Wyoming
(1868).
In the 1820 United States census, 15 counties in the Missouri Territory reported the following population counts:[3]
| Rank | County | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Howard | 13,426 |
| 2 | St. Louis | 10,049 |
| 3 | Cooper | 6,959 |
| 4 | Cape Girardeau | 5,968 |
| 5 | Ste. Genevieve | 4,962 |
| 6 | St. Charles | 3,970 |
| 7 | Pike | 3,747 |
| 8 | Montgomery | 3,074 |
| 9 | Washington | 2,769 |
| 10 | Franklin | 2,379 |
| 11 | New Madrid | 2,296 |
| 12 | Madison | 2,047 |
| 13 | Jefferson | 1,835 |
| 14 | Lincoln | 1,662 |
| 15 | Wayne | 1,443 |
| Missouri Territory | 66,586 |
See also
- Historic regions of the United States
- History of Missouri
- Territorial evolution of the United States
References
- ^ 2 Stat. 743
- ^ "How the City of Jefferson became the State Capital". Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
- ^ Forstall, Richard L. (ed.). Population of the States and Counties of the United States: 1790–1990 (PDF) (Report). United States Census Bureau. pp. 93–95. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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