St. Louis County, Missouri. St. Louis County is a county located in the far eastern portion of Missouri. It is bounded by the Mississippi River, the Missouri River, the Meramec River, and the state of Illinois. As of the 2015 Census Bureau population estimate, the population was 1,003,362, making it the most populous county in Missouri.
Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and several other settlements.t was then built up by a series of lava flows, with some smaller explosive eruptions interspersed between them. However, the style of eruption changed around 19,000 years ago to a sequence of large explosive plinian eruptions, of which the 79 AD one was the most recent.
1 The last eruption occurred in 1944, during the height of the Second World War, destroying US bomber planes stationed a few kilometres away. 2  A long period of calm usually means an eruption may happen soon. 3  Over 3 million people live in the immediate area of Mt Vesuvius.