Ozarks (Lead Belt)
Farmington's square has a documented historic-building layer
A Missouri historic survey identifies Farmington as the original county seat and treats the courthouse-square area as a documented historic-building landscape.
Farmington’s courthouse square is not just the place where county offices sit. A Missouri historic survey describes Farmington as the original county seat of St. Francois County and surveys the central business district around that civic core.
The county’s identity is not only mines, parks, and cleanup records. Farmington also has an old county-seat square with a documented architectural and civic history.
Use the survey for history, and county pages for current office details.
When reading Farmington addresses, courthouse errands, or downtown references, treat the square as part of the county’s durable geography.
That makes the survey useful beyond preservation: it helps explain why civic errands and old buildings cluster around the same center.
Where to see it
- Farmington central business district survey
Use the Missouri historic survey for the documented courthouse-square building layer.
References
More from St. Francois County: browse every local note for the county.
Last checked against the sources above: July 16, 2026.