Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Platte County, Missouri.

Official Website

The county was organized December 31, 1838, from the Platte Purchase, named for the Platte River. (Platte is derived from the French word for a low, shallow, or intermittent stream.)

Adjacent Counties

• Leavenworth County, Kan.
• Wyandotte County, Kan.
• Atchison County, Kan.
• Buchanan County
• Clinton County
• Clay County

Cities

• Camden Point
• Dearborn
• Edgerton
• Houston Lake
• Kansas City (part)
• Lake Waukomis
• Northmoor
• Parkville
• Platte City (County Seat)
• Platte Woods
• Riverside
• Smithville (part)
• Tracy
• Weatherby Lake
• Weston

Villages, Townships & Communities

Beverly | Carroll | Dye | East Leavenworth | Edgerton Junction | Fair | Ferrelview | Fox | Green | Hoover | Iatan | Kerrville | Kickapoo | Lee | Marshall | May | New Market | Pawnee | Pettis | Preston | Ridgely | Sioux | Stillings | Stubbs | Waldron | West Platte | Weston | Woodruff

Links

Wikipedia

The Burning of Platte City - December 16, 1861

Civil War on the Western Border