Mississippi County, Missouri (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, situated on the southeasterly part of Missouri, with Mississippi river on the east. Area, ---------- square miles. Seat of justice, Charleston. Pop. in 1850, 3,123.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 228.