The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 4, 1812,[1] until August 10, 1821. In 1819, the Territory of Arkansas was created from a portion of its southern area. In 1821, a southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri, and the rest became unorganized territory for several years.
On October 1, 1812, Governor Clark organized the five administrative districts of the former Louisiana Territory into the first five counties of the Missouri Territory.
On March 2, 1819, all of the Missouri Territory south of the parallel 36°30' north, except the Missouri Bootheel between the Mississippi River and the Saint Francis River north of the 36th parallel north, was designated the new Territory of Arkansaw. (The spelling of Arkansaw would be changed a few years later, although the proper pronunciation of the name would be debated until 1881.) The southeastern portion of the Missouri Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri on August 10, 1821.
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^Forstall, Richard L. (ed.). Population of the States and Counties of the United States: 1790–1990 (PDF) (Report). United States Census Bureau. pp. 93–95. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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Peter J. Kastor, Making Missouri American: A crowded frontier in the age of Lewis and Clark
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