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Worth County

Short answer

Missouri's smallest county by area and population, in the far north on the Iowa line: Grant City is the courthouse-square seat, and the landscape is row-crop and livestock agriculture near the headwaters of the Grand River — for many questions the courthouse offices, not the web, hold the answer.

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Towns, cities & local places in Worth County

Grant CityOxford

Region: Northern Missouri
Local notes: 5
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.

Estimate a bill Look up the exact rate

Practical guides

Common county next steps in Worth 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 Worth County

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

Rural neighbors in Worth County are usually farming Worth County is predominantly agricultural, so rural buyers should expect active farming nearby and understand Missouri's right-to-farm context and fence-law responsibilities. Worth County sits at the headwaters of the Grand River The Grand River system drains Worth County, which matters for floodplain mapping, low-lying ground, and rural land along the streams.

Local notes

Worth knowing in Worth County

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

Worth County Community Lake is a small public-water anchor Worth County Community Lake gives Missouri's smallest county a public fishing place tied to Indian Creek, the West Fork Grand River, and decades of local lake use. Grant City's courthouse square carries Worth County's small-county story Grant City is the seat of Missouri's smallest county, and the 1898-1899 courthouse gives the square a clock-tower, jail, and county-government story that still helps orient local errands. Worth County's small size shows up at the courthouse square Worth County's small scale is more than a census fact; the Grant City courthouse story shows how county size, county-seat pride, and public buildings fit together.

Official sources

Where to confirm it

A short set of official county and agency pages cited here. The other 8 source links stay with their individual notes.

Missouri Department of Conservation - Worth County Community Lake Missouri Department of Conservation - 2015 Worth County Community Lake Area Management Plan FEMA Flood Map Service Center Missouri Department of Conservation Missouri Department of Conservation Missouri Department of Conservation Missouri Official Manual / Blue Book collections.shsmo.org dps.mo.gov

Worth knowing nearby

Notes from the counties closest to Worth County

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

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. Hamilton House gives Bethany a rare Italianate landmark Harrison County · The Hamilton or Edna Cuddy Memorial House and Gardens gives Bethany a National Register-listed house tied to architecture, local business, and Harrison County memory. 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. Andrew County assessment starts with what you owned on January 1 Andrew County · Andrew County's assessor page is the place to start for real estate values, personal property lists, and January 1 ownership questions. 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. Daviess personal property starts with the assessor Daviess County · Daviess County residents should start personal property tax questions with the assessor record before expecting a collector receipt or waiver.

Nearby counties

Closest counties to Worth County

Nearby counties with their own local notes.

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. Harrison County A rural northern-Missouri county on the I-35 corridor up to the Iowa line, anchored by the Bethany county seat, Grand River and its tributaries, and row-crop and livestock agriculture. 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. Andrew County 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. 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. Daviess County A rural northern Missouri farm county seated at Gallatin, with right-to-farm and fence-law questions, gravel roads, Adam-ondi-Ahman, and a Gallatin bank-robbery story tied to Jesse James.

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

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