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SAINT CHARLES COUNTY, situated on the easterly boundary of Missouri, with Mississippi river on the northeast, and the Missouri on the southeast. Area, 470 square miles. Seat of justice, St. Charles. Pop. in 1810, 3,505; in 1820, 3,970; in 1830, 4,322; in 1840, 7,911; in 1850, 11,454. (Fanning's, 1853)

ST. CHARLES, a county in the E. part of Missouri, occupies a neck of land formed by the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi river; area, about 480 square miles. The Mississippi river forms the boundary on the N. E., and separates it from Illinois. It is also drained by Cuivre river, and by Dardenne, Peruque, and Femme Osage creeks. The surface is alternately hilly, rolling, and level. A range of highlands terminates about 3 miles below St. Charles, in a beautiful and romantic pile of naked bluffs, called the " Mammelles." The soil is generally fertile. Indian corn, wheat, oats, butter, and tobacco are the staples. In 1850 the county produced 658.001 bushels of corn; 122,902 of wheat; 114,658 of oats; 122,390 pounds of butter, and 210,712 of tobacco. It contained 24 churches, 1 newspaper office; 788 pupils attending public schools, and 200 attending academies and other schools. Limestone generally underlies the county. Extensive mines of stone coal are worked in several places. Capital, St. Charles. Population, 11,454, of whom 9505 were free, and 1949, slaves.  (Baldwin & Thomas, A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States ... 1854)

Total Population 1840
7911
Total Population 1850
11454
Total Population 1860
16523
Free Black Population 1860
20
Free Black Population 1850
13
Free Black Population 1840
16
Enslaved Population 1860
2181
Enslaved Population 1850
1949
Enslaved Population 1840
1594
Presidential Election Result 1840
Whig
Presidential Election Result 1848
Democrat
Presidential Election Result 1852
Democrat
Presidential Election Result 1856
Democrat
Presidential Election Result 1860
Douglas Democrat
Presidential Election Result 1864
Unconditional Union (1864)
Latitude
38.781102
Longitude
-90.674915
Waterways
Yes
Type
County
County
St. Charles
State
Missouri