History of
Stoddard County Missouri

• STODDARD County was organized January 2,1835, from New Madrid County and named for Amos Stoddard, first American Civil War Commandant of upper Louisianna.
  
  
• County Seat:
  Bloomfield 63825
  
  
• Courthouse burned in 1864.
  
  
  
• Recorder to deeds:
  
  Index to deeds,1835-1891
  Deed records,1835-1886
  Index to Marriage records,1865-1931;
  Marriage records,1863-1916
  
  
• Clerk of County court:
  
  Permanent record of births, 1883-1886
  Register of births and stillbirths,1883-1887
  Permanent record of deaths 1883-1886
  
  
• Clerk of probate court:
  
  Index to Probate records,1849-1898
  probate records,1847-1887
  Administrators/executors letters bonds and records, 1876-1898;
  Settlement records,1875-1886;
  Will records,1835-1923
  
  

• Missouri Courthouses: Stoddard County

• River Heritage Region in Southeast Missouri

• HISTORY OF BLOOMFIELD
  PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR