Cooper County, Missouri

Cooper County
Cooper County
County
	Cooper County Courthouse in Boonville
	Location within the U.S. state of Missouri
	Missouri's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 38°51′N 92°49′W / 38.85°N 92.81°W
Country	United States
State	Missouri
Founded	December 17, 1818
Named for	Sarshell Cooper
Seat	Boonville
Largest city	Boonville
Area
• Total	569 sq mi (1,470 km2)
• Land	565 sq mi (1,460 km2)
• Water	4.4 sq mi (11 km2) 0.8%
Population (2020)
• Total	17,103
• Density	30/sq mi (12/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district	4th
Website	www.coopercountymo.gov

Cooper County is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,103.^[1] Its county seat is Boonville.^[2] The county was organized December 17, 1818, and named for Sarshell Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Native Americans near Arrow Rock in 1814.^[3]^[4] It is a part of the Columbia, Missouri metropolitan area.

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^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 90.
^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 280.