Town and Country incorporated in 1950 with an explicit goal of preventing the commercial and higher-density residential development that the postwar suburban boom was bringing to the surrounding county. The low-density charter it established has been maintained since — the city has no significant commercial development, no apartment buildings, and lot sizes that run to multiple acres in many sections. The result is a community that feels more like exurban estate country than suburb, despite sitting in the heart of St. Louis County between Ladue and Chesterfield.

The large wooded lots that define Town and Country's landscape — the oaks, maples, and hickories that have grown on estate properties for decades — create the edge habitat and canopy conditions that bring deer, turkey, and the full range of woodland wildlife into close contact with the residential structures. Properties back up to wooded corridors, creek drainages, and undeveloped parcels in ways that few incorporated municipalities in the county allow, and the wildlife pressure that results is more characteristic of rural Missouri than of suburban St. Louis County.

Estate Lot Pest Profile

Town and Country's large wooded lots produce the highest tick pressure of any municipality in the county's suburban core. The combination of dense deer populations, mature woodland cover, and the creek and drainage corridors that sustain the small mammal populations that are tick hosts creates conditions where Lyme disease risk from blacklegged ticks and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever risk from American dog ticks are genuine considerations rather than abstract concerns. Properties that abut wooded edges warrant professional tick barrier programs covering the lawn perimeter and woodland transition zones.

Carpenter ant pressure from the mature trees — particularly in trees with any degree of decay or moisture damage — is consistent across the city's estate properties. Squirrel attic intrusion from the abundant fox and gray squirrel populations is among the most common wildlife management calls in the area. D&D Pest Control serves west St. Louis County — visit ddpestcontrolmo.com.