Annotations
BLOOMFIELD, a post-village, capital of Stoddard county, Missouri, on Lick creek, a tributary of Lake Stoddard, 280 miles S. E. from Jefferson City. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854
BLOOMFIELD The county seat of Stoddard county, about 150 miles from St. Louis, in Carter township. Contains one Missionary Baptist and one Southern Methodist Church, one Masonic lodge, viz., Bloomfield No. 153, a Seminary and one free school. The projected railroad of Fulton and Cairo will, when completed, touch at this point. The present population is 1,000. County Sheriff, James Dowdy. (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)
Latitude
36.887695
Longitude
-89.931538
Type
City or Town
County
Stoddard
State
Missouri