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Taney County, Missouri
Taney County
is a
county
located in the southwestern portion of the
U.S. state
of
Missouri
. As of the
2010 census
, the population was 51,675. Its
county seat
is
Forsyth
. The county was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of
Roger Brooke Taney
, the fifth
Chief Justice
of the
U.S. Supreme Court
, most remembered for later delivering the infamous majority opinion in
Dred Scott v. Sandford
.
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