Bollinger County is a county located in Southeast Missouri in the United States. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the county's population was 12,029. A 2009 estimate, however, showed the population to be 11,841. The county seat is Marble Hill, which is the only city in Bollinger County. The county was officially organized in 1851.
Bollinger County is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bollinger County is known for its natural beauty and is the home of the Missouri dinosaur. Blue Pond, the deepest natural pond in Missouri, is located in southern Bollinger County.
Sixty million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the area that would eventually become known as Bollinger County. The "Missouri Dinosaur," a hadrosaur (duck-billed), was discovered at a dig near Glen Allen. It has produced bones from different dinosaurs and aquatic species. Bollinger County has the distinction of having a truly "Midwestern Dinosaur."
The county's terrain ranges from the Mississippi Delta flatlands in the south to the Ozark hills in the north. Streams with names such as Crooked Creek, Little Whitewater, Big Whitewater, Hurricane and Castor played an important part in creating the
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