Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Scotland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 4,983. Its county seat is Memphis. The county was organized in 1841 and named for Scotland. Surveyor S. W. B. Carnegy suggested that the county be named after his native country of Scotland. He also gave several settlements in the area Scottish names. Scotland County is the birthplace for the Western figure Tom Horn. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 439 square miles (1,138 km²), of which, 438 square miles (1,136 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 km²) of it (0.18%) is water. There were 1,902 households out of which 32.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.20% were married couples living together, 7.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.50% were non-families. 28.20% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.16.