Only a handful of marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples in and around Cole County since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the unions last year. However, in Cole County, the exact number isn't known since the county doesn't keep track.
In Callaway County, there were eight same-sex marriage licenses issued, five for women and three for men.
Miller County has issueed five licenses, four female couples and one male couple.
Moniteau and Osage counties reported only issuing one same-sex marriage license this past year.
On July 31, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported 104 same-sex marriage licenses had been issued in Boone County.
The recorder of deeds offices in those counties provided the numbers for their counties.
While they have issued same-sex licenses since July 2015, the Cole County Recorders office, which issues marriage licenses, does not keep track of how many same-sex marriage licenses it has done.
"The state does not require recorder's offices to keep that statistic," said Cole County Recorder of Deeds Ralph Bray. "We've never been asked, so we haven't been tracking them. I haven't heard anything from the recorders association calling for a change."
"We've had no problems since the marriages were made legal," said Recorders' Association of Missouri President Barbara Hall. "We had to make some changes to software and forms, and that's it."
Bray said although the association helps them, the recorders are in charge of their offices, and they have to deal with how they will handle a change.
"If a couple has the proper information, we'll issue a marriage application," Bray added. "That's our job, which is to follow the law. We don't make up the law, we follow the law."
"We take the application and file it when it comes back," said Hall, who is the recorder of deeds for St. Charles County. "We don't treat the folks wanting those licenses differently than any other couples."
She said recorder offices don't track specific groups of marriages, including same-sex marriages. She estimated her office has seen around 70 same-sex marriages out of 2,500-3,000 overall marriages since the law changed.