Prospect K. Robbins

Prospect K. Robbins (1788-1847) was a young man well known for his education, military service, and surveying skill in St. Charles and Lincoln counties, Missouri. He is best noted as the man who establish the Fifth Principal Meridian, a foundational survey in the Midwest that established essentially the division of the Louisiana Territory into the Missouri Territory and later to the State of Missouri on August 10, 1821.