Pemiscot County
Pemiscot County is a county located in the southeastern corner in the Bootheel in the U.S. state of Missouri, with the Mississippi River forming its eastern border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,661. The largest city and county seat is Caruthersville. The county was officially organized on February 19, 1851. It is named for the local bayou, taken from the word pem-eskaw, meaning "liquid mud", in the language of the native Meskwaki people. This has been an area of cotton plantations and later other commodity crops.
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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)
- Census ID (PID6)
- 129440
- FIPS state
- 29
- FIPS county
- 155
- FIPS place
- 99155
- Census record name
- COUNTY OF PEMISCOT
- Mailing address
- 610 WARD AVE, CARUTHERSVILLE 63830