Alexander Earhart a native of West Virginia, opened a farm on Elk Fork in 1851, and his brother, Stronger, came at the same time. Austin and Joseph Reeder settled between Elk Fork and Peter creeks in 1832. White came from Wayne county, Kentucky and settled on Elk Fork creek in this township in 1844, and died there in 1872. The land is rich and rolling, and more or less rugged, and is drained by Grand river on the north, and by Cove and Peter creeks, with Elk Fork touching the northwest corner of the township. It is not quite a full congressional township of thirty-six sections, all of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 lying north of Grand river in Cass county, and also parts of sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, all in township 42, range 29 west. This seems preferable to an alphabetical basis, as the townships are more familiar in that order.īounded on the north by Grand river, which separates it from Cass county, on the east by Henry county, on the south by Spruce township, and on the west by Grand River township. In this chapter we give briefly such data as seems to be of historical value touching the early settlement pi the several townships, beginning with Mingo township in the northeast corner of the county, and following west and east back and forth, ending with Howard township in the southwest corner of the county. In an effort to preserve and make them more accessible, they have been made available online for the public-at-large.Histories of Townships, Towns and Villages of Bates County Missouri
These plat books are quite frequently consulted. The plat books in this collection are held in the Special Collections Department at Ellis Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the St.
Although the exact year of publication is unclear, the volumes are estimated to be from the late 1920s to early 1930s. This is a collection of 114 Missouri County plat books published by W.W. Missouri - Cape Girardeau County (1) +.
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