Agricultural Schedules

Agricultural Schedules were taken from 1850 through 1930.  These schedules listed the names of the heads of households for farms valued at $100 or greater along with the types, amount, and value of crops, livestock, and land.  The qualifying criteria were changed in 1920 to include just farms with 3 or more acres or less than 3 acres that produced at least $250 worth of farm products.

The 1850-1880 Agricultural Schedules are available by county below.  Not all counties have a schedule for each of the available years.  The original records are available at the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. 

County Census Data
CountyCensus by Year

Adair

1850, 1860, 18701880

Andrew

1850, 1860, 18701880

Atchison

1850, 1860, 18701880

Audrain

1850, 1860, 18701880

Barry

1850, 1860, 18701880   

Barton (created 1855 from Jasper)

1860, 18701880

Bates

1850, 1860, 18701880

Benton

1850, 1860, 18701880

Bollinger (created 1851 from Cape Girardeau, Madison, Stoddard and Pike)

1860, 18701880

Boone

1850, 1860, 18701880

Buchanan

1850, 1860, 18701880

Butler

1850, 1860, 18701880

Caldwell

1850, 1860, 18701880

Callaway

1850, 1860, 18701880

Camden

1850, 1860, 18701880

Cape Girardeau

1850, 1860, 18701880

Carroll

1850, 1860, 18701880

Carter (created 1859 from Oregon, Reynolds, Ripley and Shannon)

1860, 18701880

Cass

1850, 1860, 18701880

Cedar

1850, 1860, 18701880

Chariton

1850, 1860, 18701880

Christian (created 1859 from Greene, Taney and Webster)

1860, 18701880

Clark

1850, 1860, 18701880

Clay

1850, 1860, 18701880

Clinton

1850, 1860, 18701880

Cole

1850, 1860, 18701880

Cooper

1850, 1860, 18701880

Crawford

1850, 1860, 18701880

Dade

1850, 1860, 18701880

Dallas

1850, 1860, 18701880

Daviess

1850, 1860, 18701880

Dekalb

1850, 1860, 18701880

Dent (created 1851 from Crawford and Shannon)

1860, 18701880

Douglas (created 1857 from Ozark)

1860, 18701880

Dunklin

1850, 1860, 18701880

Franklin

1850, 1860, 18701880

Gasconade

1850, 1860, 18701880

Gentry

1850, 1860, 18701880

Greene

1850, 1860, 18701880

Grundy

1850, 1860, 18701880

Harrison

1850, 1860, 18701880

Henry

1850, 1860, 18701880

Hickory

1850, 1860, 18701880

Holt

1850, 1860, 18701880

Howard

1850, 1860, 18701880

Howell (created 1857 from Oregon)

1860, 18701880

Iron (created 1857 from Madison, Reynolds, St. Francois, Washington and Wayne)

1860, 18701880

Jackson

1850, 1860, 18701880

Jasper

1850, 1860, 18701880

Jefferson

1850, 1860, 18701880

Johnson

1850, 1860, 18701880

Knox 

1850, 1860, 18701880

Laclede

1850, 1860, 18701880

Lafayette

1850, 1860, 18701880

Lawrence 

1850, 1860, 18701880

Lewis

1850, 1860, 18701880

Lincoln

1850, 1860, 18701880

Linn

1850, 1860, 18701880

Livingston

1850, 1860, 18701880

Macon

1850, 1860, 18701880

Madison

1850, 1860, 18701880

Maries (created 1855 from Osage and Pulaski)

1860, 18701880

Marion

1850, 1860, 18701880

McDonald

1850, 1860, 18701880

Mercer

1850, 1860, 18701880

Miller 

1850, 1860, 18701880

Mississippi

1850, 1860, 18701880

Moniteau

1850, 1860, 18701880

Monroe

1850, 1860, 18701880

Montgomery

1850, 1860, 18701880

Morgan

1850, 1860, 18701880

New Madrid

1850, 1860, 18701880

Newton

1850, 1860, 18701880

Nodaway

1850, 1860, 18701880

Oregon

1850, 1860, 18701880

Osage 

1850, 1860, 18701880

Ozark

1850, 1860, 18701880

Pemiscot (created 1851 from New Madrid)

1860, 18701880

Perry

1850, 1860, 18701880

Pettis

1850, 1860, 18701880

Phelps (created 1857 from Crawford)

1860, 18701880

Pike

1850, 1860, 18701880

Platte

1850, 1860, 18701880

Polk

1850, 1860, 18701880

Pulaski

1850, 1860, 18701880

Putnam 

1850 (PDF includes Dodge County), 1860, 18701880

Ralls 

1850, 1860, 18701880

Randolph

1850, 1860, 18701880

Ray

1850, 1860, 18701880

Reynolds

1850, 1860, 18701880

Ripley

1850, 1860, 18701880

Saline

1850, 1860, 18701880

Schuyler

1850, 1860, 18701880

Scotland

1850, 1860, 18701880

Scott 

1850, 1860, 18701880

Shannon

1850, 1860, 18701880

Shelby

1850, 1860, 18701880

St. Charles

1850, 1860, 18701880

St. Clair

1850, 1860, 18701880

St. Francois

1850, 1860, 1870, 1880

St. Louis

1850, 1860, 18701880

St. Louis City (separated from St. Louis County in 1876)

1880

Ste. Genevieve

1850, 1860, 18701880

Stoddard

1850, 1860, 18701880

Stone (created 1851 from Taney)

1860, 18701880

Sullivan

1850, 1860, 18701880

Taney

1850, 1860, 18701880

Texas

1850, 1860, 18701880

Vernon (created 1855 from Bates)

1860, 18701880

Warren

1850, 1860, 18701880

Washington

1850, 1860, 18701880

Wayne

1850, 1860, 18701880

Webster (created 1855 from Greene)

1860, 18701880

Worth (created 1861 from Gentry)

18701880

Wright

1850, 1860, 18701880

 

Agricultural Schedules
Sample FormStatistical Summaries
1850 PDF file* Statistical summaries are available on the Census Bureau’s website https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html.  This link will take you off-site.  Once you are there, click on the year of the census.  Then click on the ZIP file for a specific report.
1860 PDF file*
1870 PDF file*
1880 page 1 PDF file* page 2 PDF file*
1890 (destroyed by 1896 fire)
1900-1910 (destroyed by Federal order)
1920-1930 (form not available)