Taney County, Missouri
Taney County is a county in southwestern Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,066. Its county seat is Forsyth. The county was officially organized on January 4, 1837. It was named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford.