Cote Sans Dessein Township, Callaway County, Missouri

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Cote Sans Dessein Township
Township
Map highlighting Cote Sans Dessein Township, Callaway County, Missouri.svg
Coordinates: 38°38′18″N092°00′07″W / 38.63833°N 92.00194°W / 38.63833; -92.00194
Country United States
State Missouri
County Callaway
Area
 • Total48.82 sq mi (126.43 km2)
 • Land47.29 sq mi (122.49 km2)
 • Water1.52 sq mi (3.95 km2)  3.12%
Elevation
[1]
551 ft (168 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total1,122
 • Density23/sq mi (8.9/km2)
FIPS code 29-16642 [2]
GNIS feature ID 0766376

Cote Sans Dessein Township is one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,122. [3]

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Geography

Today, Cote Sans Dessein Township covers an area of 48.82 square miles (126.4 km2) and, as of 2018, contains no incorporated settlements, but does include the unincorporated community of Tebbetts and the historic riverbank settlements of Cote Sans Dessein and Barkersville (west of Cote Sans Dessein settlement with a post office and school as of 1876), as well as historic Effie (inland and northeast of Tebbetts), plus rural homes. It contains six cemeteries: Farmer, High Hill, Middle River, Riverview, Thorp and Williams, and The streams of Cason Branch, Gallons Creek, Muddy Creek, Rivaux Creek, Rocky Branch, and Sand Springs Branch.

The township's eastern boundary is formed by the Missouri River tributary of Middle River, and the Missouri River tributary of Little Auxvasse Creek also flows through the township.

A detailed historic map of Callaway County townships in 1930 can be found at http://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/moplatbooks/id/656 . This is useful for historical and genealogical research. Maps and text descriptions of Callaway townships prior to that date can be found under the article for Callaway County, Missouri.

History

Cote Sans Dessein Township was established in 1821, and named after the community of Cote Sans Dessein, Missouri. [4] The township included nearly all of western Callaway County at the time of its establishment, but within only a few months its size became reduced as a result of the creation of new townships up and down western Callaway (per the Missouri State Library's "History of Callaway County" published in 1884, which gives text descriptions of the boundaries).

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Cote Sans Dessein is an extinct town within the still extant Cote Sans Dessein Township in southern Callaway County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The site was on the Missouri River floodplain across the river from Dauphine or Bonnots Mill in Osage County. The town of Cote Sans Dessein survived repeated destruction by flooding, until it was finally largely abandoned and its population mostly dispersed.

References

  1. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Cote Sans Dessein township, Callaway County, Missouri". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved October 31, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Callaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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