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County Information



Some of the cities, towns, and places in Saline County are Arrow Rock, Blackburn, Blue Lick, Elmwood, Emma, Fairville, Gilliam, Grand Pass, Hardeman, Herndon, Lafayette County, Malta Bend, Marshall, Marshall Junction, McAllister Springs, Miami, Mount Leonard, Napton, Nelson, New Frankfort, Norton, Orearville, Pennytown, Ridge Prairie, Saline City, Salt Springs, Shackleford, Sharon, Slater, Sweet Springs

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Saline County is located along the Missouri River in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,370. Its county seat is Marshall. The county was established November 25, 1820, and named for the region's salt springs. Settled primarily by migrants from the Upper South during the nineteenth century, this county was in the region bordering the Missouri River known as "Little Dixie". In the antebellum years, it had many plantations operated with the forced labor of enslaved workers. One-third of the county population was African American at the start of the American Civil War, but their proportion of the residents has declined dramatically to little more than five percent. Saline County comprises the Marshall, Missouri Micropolitan Statistical Area.