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Andrew County

Short answer

A small northwest-Missouri county wrapped around Savannah, sitting on the northern fringe of St. Joseph (Buchanan County) with Missouri River bottoms on the west and the Nodaway River crossing it.

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Towns, cities & local places in Andrew County

ReaSavannah St. Joseph Union Star

Region: Northern Missouri
Local notes: 10
Notes nearby: 6
Nearby counties: 6

Property tax snapshot

Missouri has no single county rate. A bill is the sum of every taxing district on the parcel — county, school, city, fire, library, ambulance — and the school levy varies most within a county.

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Practical guides

Common county next steps in Andrew County

Use these when the local office, parcel, vehicle, or deadline matters.

Property tax estimator Estimate a real-property bill, then confirm the exact parcel value and levy locally. Personal property tax guide Sort January 1 vehicle ownership, paid receipts, and statements of non-assessment. Vehicle title checklist Plan the license-office trip around title timing, inspections, emissions, and receipts. Assessment appeal guide If a value looks wrong, start with the county deadline and evidence about market value.

Local notes

Local rules and costs to check in Andrew County

Short notes on the taxes, paperwork, and local-government layers here — grouped by topic, each linking the official sources behind it.

The west edge sits in the Missouri River bottoms Andrew County's western boundary is the Missouri River, and bottomland property there can fall in a mapped flood zone that affects insurance and building. Lettered routes and gravel roads are normal here Outside Savannah and the highway corridor, getting around Andrew County means lettered state routes and county gravel roads, and a road's status determines who maintains it. Andrew County assessment starts with what you owned on January 1 Andrew County's assessor page is the place to start for real estate values, personal property lists, and January 1 ownership questions. Andrew County's tax search works best with the right number Andrew County's online tax inquiry points users to parcel numbers for real estate, account numbers for personal property, and a processing warning for quick receipts.

Local notes

Worth knowing in Andrew County

History, rivers, lakes, and quirks that give the county some shape.

Elrod Mill Access turns a Platte River stop into local history Elrod Mill Access northeast of Savannah is an MDC Platte River access with a late-1800s mill story attached to the site. Happy Holler is Andrew County's big MDC lake-and-bottomland area Happy Holler Lake Conservation Area gives Andrew County a large MDC-managed outdoor area tied to the One Hundred and Two River, fields, wetlands, timber, and public-use rules. The Roberts Octagonal Barn marks a Rea-area farm landmark The J.F. Roberts Octagonal Barn near Rea is an Andrew County National Register property that points to a more specific farm-building story than a generic rural-land note. Two rivers cross the county: Missouri and Nodaway Beyond the Missouri River on its west, Andrew County is crossed by the Nodaway River, and Missouri Department of Conservation areas in the county are the place to confirm public access, hunting, and fishing Rural land here usually means active farming nearby Andrew County is largely agricultural, so buyers of rural land should expect working farms next door and understand Missouri's right-to-farm framework. Savannah is the county seat just north of St. Joseph Andrew County's seat, Savannah, sits on the northern fringe of St. Joseph, so the county functions partly as a commuter and bedroom area for that larger city in Buchanan County.

Official sources

Where to confirm it

A short set of official county and agency pages cited here. The other 15 source links stay with their individual notes.

Andrew County Assessor Missouri Department of Conservation - Elrod Mill Access Missouri Department of Conservation - Happy Holler Lake Conservation Area Missouri State Parks - National Register Listings by County National Park Service - J.F. Roberts Octagonal Barn Andrew County Property Tax Inquiry Andrew County Collector City of Savannah - My Taxes FEMA Flood Map Service Center

Worth knowing nearby

Notes from the counties closest to Andrew County

Source-checked notes from the nearest counties — the local layer often carries across the county line.

Cameron's depot tells the county-line crossroads story DeKalb County · The Cameron Depot Museum helps explain why Cameron's transportation story matters across DeKalb County and the nearby county-line landscape. Remington Nature Center ties St. Joseph to the Missouri River Buchanan County · The city-run Remington Nature Center sits on the Missouri River and interprets both natural history and local history in St. Joseph. Personal-property lists start with the assessor in January Holt County · Holt County's assessor page says personal-property assessment lists are mailed in January and due back by March 1 without penalty. Nodaway County Community Lake is the smaller lake north of Maryville Nodaway County · Nodaway County Community Lake gives the county a second public-water anchor, with pasture, old fields, a boat ramp, fishing access, and camping north of Maryville. Albany's Carnegie library made room for books, lunch, and a trip to town Gentry County · Albany's 1906 Carnegie library was designed for books and reading, but its basement also gave rural visitors a place to rest, eat lunch, and leave packages. Cameron is Clinton County's crossroads, but the county line still matters Clinton County · Cameron's I-35 and Highway 36 crossroads identity is real, but property records still depend on whether an address falls in Clinton County or DeKalb County.

Nearby counties

Closest counties to Andrew County

Nearby counties with their own local notes.

DeKalb County A small, rural northwest-Missouri farm county anchored by the seat at Maysville, with Stewartsville and Clarksdale as small towns and the larger city of Cameron straddling the DeKalb-Clinton line. Buchanan County Northwest Missouri's urban county around St. Joseph, with Missouri River bluffs, older city neighborhoods, stockyard and railroad history, museums, and practical city-county paperwork. Holt County A far-northwest county shaped by Missouri River bottoms and Loess Hills, with row-crop land, Big Lake State Park, Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, and small-seat government at Oregon. Nodaway County A small but coherent northwest-Missouri county: a university town (Maryville), high-yield row-crop agriculture with right-to-farm and fence-law questions, a Benedictine abbey, a city recreation lake, and lettered/gravel rural roads. Gentry County A small, rural far-northern Missouri farm county with Albany as the seat, the Grand River and its tributaries draining the landscape, and the signature Missouri tax-and-plate paperwork in play. Clinton County A north-metro farm and commuter county with Plattsburg as the historic seat, Cameron on the I-35/US-36 crossroads, Smithville Lake nearby, and county paperwork still central.

Reviewed June 18, 2026. These notes are a starting point — confirm exact parcel, license, tax, or permit details with the Andrew County office that controls each record.

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