Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Cottleville, MO

Cottleville is one of the oldest towns in St. Charles County - Captain Warren G. Cottle first settled the area in 1798 under a Spanish land grant, when Missouri was still Spanish territory.

Before it had its present name, the village on the Dardenne Creek was known as Dardenne or Pin Hook.

In 1839 Lorenzo Cottle parceled 200 acres on both sides of the Dardenne River and laid out the town, naming it Cottleville after his father and grandfather.

A post office called Cottleville has been in operation since 1843.

Cottleville stayed a tiny farming village for well over a century - it counted only 225 residents in 1880 and just 184 in 1980 - before suburban St. Louis growth transformed it.

Cottleville's population surged 82.5% in the 2010s alone, reaching 5,611 at the 2020 census.

Cottleville had 2,048 households at the 2020 census, and nearly two-thirds of them - 62.5% - were married-couple households.

St. Charles Community College, a public two-year college, is located within Cottleville's city limits.

Cottleville is home to Francis Howell Central High School, one of the high schools of the Francis Howell School District.

St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cottleville is the largest church by number of parishioners in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis.