St. Louis County sees dwindling number of municipalities
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis County is seeing its number of municipalities drop after a village dissolved in April and several are poised to fold in the near future.
The number of St. Louis County municipalities fell to 88 when Mackenzie residents decided to discorporate nearly three months ago, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The village of about 132 people voted to dissolve because no one wanted to take over running the town, where the median age of trustees was 82.
The village, which incorporated in 1946, added its dozen acres to unincorporated St. Louis County in April. Mackenzie is among more than 50 municipalities in St. Louis County that formed between 1945 and 1952, according to the book "Fragmented by Design: Why St.