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This County is Available for Adoption!
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical
data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication
to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it --- while
enjoying themselves doing it!
If you are interested in joining our group by hosting either this county website or one of the available county
websites, view our Volunteer Information page and Email Kim.
[A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a basic webpage is required.]
Until then, we'll be adding data to this site as we can.
You can help us to get this site growing by sending in your family's data.
Until this site has a host there is no one to answer your
research questions and we regret that we do not have the time to perform personal research.
County History
Randolph County was organized January 22, 1829 with four original townships
of Sugar Creek, Silver Creek, Prairie and Salt Spring. The county was named after John Randolph, statesman from
Virginia. Later townships of Moniteau, Jackson, Chariton, Cairo, Clifton and Union were organized, Prairie being
the largest.
The County Seat is Huntsville.
Moberly, called "Magic City" since it seemed to spring up out of the prairie overnight, is the largest
city in Randolph county with a population of 11,945 in 2000. The county has rich farm land, coal deposits and is
diverse in farming operations and livestock. Randolph County, in particular Moberly grew quickly from 1866 to 1873
due to the Wabash, Chariton and Randolph railroad connecting with the North Missouri Railroad Company at Moberly.
Randolph County was part of Howard County from 1816 until 1820. Chariton County was formed and Randolph became
part of that county until it became an independent county in 1829.
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