Maysville, MO

Maysville is DeKalb County’s seat in northwestern Missouri, where Routes 6 and 33 meet in the county’s central road network. Founded in 1845, the city sits in the St. Joseph metro area and the 2020 census counted 1,095 residents. The courthouse square gives Maysville a civic center, while farm roads point outward toward the smaller communities and fields of DeKalb County.

The DeKalb County Courthouse handles county business on the square, and Maysville’s municipal court meets there too. Maysville R-I School District, city offices, local businesses, and the county’s public services give the city a steady weekday rhythm. The square also keeps courthouse, city, and school-day traffic in the same few blocks together. The town’s geography is easy to read: Route 6 carries east-west traffic, Route 33 runs north and south, and the courthouse sits where county government and local errands overlap. Maysville is a county-seat town in the most literal sense, with the square doing much of the organizing.