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Combined Statistical Area
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A combined statistical area is composed of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. These areas that retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area. The primary distinguishing factor between a CSA and an MSA is that the social and economic ties between the individual MSAs within a CSA are at lower levels than between the counties within an MSA, cSAs represent multiple metropolitan or micropolitan areas that have an employment interchange of 25. CSAs often represent regions with overlapping labor and media markets, as of July 2012, there are 166 combined statistical areas in the United States, plus three in Puerto Rico. S. S. Combined Statistical Areas of the United States and Puerto Rico, link United States Government United States Census Bureau 2010 United States Census USCB population estimates United States Office of Management and Budget
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NASA
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29,1958, disestablishing NASAs predecessor, the new agency became operational on October 1,1958. Since that time, most US space exploration efforts have led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station. Currently, NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for unmanned NASA launches. NASA shares data with various national and international such as from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite. Since 2011, NASA has been criticized for low cost efficiency, from 1946, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics had been experimenting with rocket planes such as the supersonic Bell X-1. In the early 1950s, there was challenge to launch a satellite for the International Geophysical Year. An effort for this was the American Project Vanguard, after the Soviet launch of the worlds first artificial satellite on October 4,1957, the attention of the United States turned toward its own fledgling space efforts. This led to an agreement that a new federal agency based on NACA was needed to conduct all non-military activity in space. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was created in February 1958 to develop technology for military application. On July 29,1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, a NASA seal was approved by President Eisenhower in 1959. Elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the United States Naval Research Laboratory were incorporated into NASA, earlier research efforts within the US Air Force and many of ARPAs early space programs were also transferred to NASA. In December 1958, NASA gained control of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA has conducted many manned and unmanned spaceflight programs throughout its history. Some missions include both manned and unmanned aspects, such as the Galileo probe, which was deployed by astronauts in Earth orbit before being sent unmanned to Jupiter, the experimental rocket-powered aircraft programs started by NACA were extended by NASA as support for manned spaceflight. This was followed by a space capsule program, and in turn by a two-man capsule program. This goal was met in 1969 by the Apollo program, however, reduction of the perceived threat and changing political priorities almost immediately caused the termination of most of these plans. NASA turned its attention to an Apollo-derived temporary space laboratory, to date, NASA has launched a total of 166 manned space missions on rockets, and thirteen X-15 rocket flights above the USAF definition of spaceflight altitude,260,000 feet. The X-15 was an NACA experimental rocket-powered hypersonic research aircraft, developed in conjunction with the US Air Force, the design featured a slender fuselage with fairings along the side containing fuel and early computerized control systems
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Missouri
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Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1821. With over six million residents, it is the eighteenth most populous state, the largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capitol is in Jefferson City on the Missouri River, the state is the twenty-first most extensive by area and is geographically diverse. The Northern Plains were once covered by glaciers, then tallgrass prairie, in the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Mississippi River forms the border of the state, eventually flowing into the swampy Missouri Bootheel. Humans have inhabited what we now call Missouri for at least 12,000 years, the Mississippian culture built cities and mounds, before declining in the 1300s. When European explorers arrived in the 1600s they encountered the Osage, the French established Louisiana, a part of New France, and founded Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764, after a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South, including enslaved African Americans, rushed into the new Missouri Territory, many from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, heavy German immigration formed the Missouri Rhineland, Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, as a border state, Missouris role in the American Civil War was complex and there were many conflicts within. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business, today, the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouris culture blends elements from the Midwestern and Southern United States, the musical styles of ragtime, Kansas City jazz, and St. Louis Blues, developed in Missouri. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and lesser known St. Louis-style barbecue can be found across the state, St. Louis is also a major center of beer brewing, Anheuser-Busch is the largest producer in the world. Missouri wine is produced in the nearby Missouri Rhineland and Ozarks, Missouris alcohol laws are among the most permissive in the United States. Outside of the large cities popular tourist destinations include the Lake of the Ozarks, U. S. President Harry S. Truman is from Missouri. Other well known Missourians include Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Chuck Berry, some of the largest companies based in the state include Express Scripts, Monsanto, Emerson Electric, Edward Jones, and OReilly Auto Parts. Missouri has been called the Mother of the West and the Cave State, however, Missouris most famous nickname is the Show Me State, the state is named for the Missouri River, which was named after the indigenous Missouri Indians, a Siouan-language tribe
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Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, the word Illinois comes from a French rendering of a native Algonquin word. For decades, OHare International Airport has been ranked as one of the worlds busiest airports, Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics. With the War of 1812 Illinois growth slowed as both Native Americans and Canadian forces often raided the American Frontier, mineral finds and timber stands also had spurred immigration—by the 1810s, the Eastern U. S. Railroads arose and matured in the 1840s, and soon carried immigrants to new homes in Illinois, as well as being a resource to ship their commodity crops out to markets. Railroads freed most of the land of Illinois and other states from the tyranny of water transport. By 1900, the growth of jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted a new group of immigrants. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars, the Great Migration from the South established a large community of African Americans in Chicago, who created the citys famous jazz and blues cultures. Three U. S. presidents have been elected while living in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, additionally, Ronald Reagan, whose political career was based in California, was the only U. S. president born and raised in Illinois. Today, Illinois honors Lincoln with its official slogan, Land of Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is located in the capital of Springfield. Illinois is the spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries and explorers name for the Illinois Native Americans. American scholars previously thought the name Illinois meant man or men in the Miami-Illinois language and this etymology is not supported by the Illinois language, as the word for man is ireniwa and plural men is ireniwaki. The name Illiniwek has also said to mean tribe of superior men. The name Illinois derives from the Miami-Illinois verb irenwe·wa he speaks the regular way and this was taken into the Ojibwe language, perhaps in the Ottawa dialect, and modified into ilinwe·. The French borrowed these forms, changing the ending to spell it as -ois. The current spelling form, Illinois, began to appear in the early 1670s, the Illinois name for themselves, as attested in all three of the French missionary-period dictionaries of Illinois, was Inoka, of unknown meaning and unrelated to the other terms. American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, the Koster Site has been excavated and demonstrates 7,000 years of continuous habitation
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St. Louis
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St. Louis is an independent city and major U. S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. Prior to European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, in 1764, following Frances defeat in the Seven Years War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase, during the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States and it separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics, the economy of metro St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. This city has become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical. St. Louis has 2 professional sports teams, the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the city is commonly identified with the 630-foot tall Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture and their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 AD to 1500 AD. Due to numerous major earthworks within St. Louis boundaries, the city was nicknamed as the Mound City and these mounds were mostly demolished during the citys development. Historic Native American tribes in the area included the Siouan-speaking Osage people, whose territory extended west, European exploration of the area was first recorded in 1673, when French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette traveled through the Mississippi River valley. Five years later, La Salle claimed the region for France as part of La Louisiane. The earliest European settlements in the area were built in Illinois Country on the east side of the Mississippi River during the 1690s and early 1700s at Cahokia, Kaskaskia, migrants from the French villages on the opposite side of the Mississippi River founded Ste. In early 1764, after France lost the 7 Years War, Pierre Laclède, the early French families built the citys economy on the fur trade with the Osage, as well as with more distant tribes along the Missouri River. The Chouteau brothers gained a monopoly from Spain on the fur trade with Santa Fe, French colonists used African slaves as domestic servants and workers in the city. In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native American allies, the founding of St. Louis began in 1763. Pierre Laclede led an expedition to set up a fur-trading post farther up the Mississippi River, before then, Laclede had been a very successful merchant. For this reason, he and his trading partner Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent were offered monopolies for six years of the fur trading in that area
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St. Louis County, Missouri
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St. Louis County is a county located in the far eastern portion of Missouri. It is bounded by the Mississippi River, the Missouri River, the Meramec River, as of the 2015 Census Bureau population estimate, the population was 1,003,362, making it the most populous county in Missouri. St. Louis County borders, but does not include, the city of St. Louis and it is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. During the 18th century, several settlements were established in the area that would become St. Louis County, the earliest of these, St. Louis, was begun by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau on February 14,1764. Founded in about 1767 was Carondelet, which was at the end of what is now St. Louis. Florissant, then known as St. Ferdinand, was established in 1785 about twelve miles northwest of St. Louis on a tributary of the Missouri River. During the 1790s, very small settlements known as Creve Coeur and Point Labadie were built north, during this time, the first governing body of St. Louis County was established. On October 1,1812, the District of St. Louis was renamed St. Louis County during a reorganization of the territorys status, after the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, the authority to grant incorporation to municipalities became territorial and, later, state power. The first to gain status in St. Louis County was St. Louis, which incorporated on November 9,1809 under the territorial legislature. Two towns grew substantially and incorporated as a result of the building of the Pacific Railroad in the 1850s, Pacific, Pacific, known before the railroad line connection as Franklin, straddles St. Louis County and Franklin County, it incorporated as Pacific in 1859. Leffingwell organized the town as a suburb, and Kirkwood was granted incorporation by the state in 1865. Other areas of the county began to be settled during this period, among these were Chesterfield and Gumbo, both settled in the 1820s in west St. Louis County, and Gravois and Affton which were settled in south St. Louis County in the 1850s and 1860s. Aside from the first St. Louis Public Schools that were established in the 1830s, Louis in the east, and to the north up to Clayton Road. Another antebellum school district was Rock Hill, which provided a school across from the Rock Hill Presbyterian Church until about 1870. The first school in Florissant opened in 1819 under the direction of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, the instructor, Rose Philippine Duchesne, was a French immigrant who has been described as one of the foremost educators in the state of Missouri. The earliest public school in Florissant was the St. Ferdinand School, which was authorized by the General Assembly in 1845 and operated until 1871, from 1813 to 1830, the county underwent several changes to its government. By an act of the legislature, the Court of Quarter Sessions was succeeded by a panel of three judges of common pleas in 1813. Two years later, this panel was succeeded by a newly created county court composed of justices of the peace from the county elected to three month terms
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St. Charles County, Missouri
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St. Charles County is a county in the eastern part of the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 360,485 and its county seat is St. Charles. The county was organized October 1,1812 and named for Saint Charles Borromeo, the county executive is Steve Ehlmann, since January 2007. St. Charles County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, the wealthiest county in Missouri, St. Charles County is one of the nations fastest-growing counties. The county is also recognized as very conservative, ranking in the top 100 nationally, St. Charles County includes an area of vineyards and wineries whose distinction has been nationally recognized. On its rural outer edge along the bluffs above the Missouri River is an area of numerous wineries. The area includes the Augusta AVA, designated in 1980 as the first American Viticultural Area by the federal government, the County of St. Charles was originally called the District of St. Charles and had no definite limits until 1816 to 1818 when neighboring counties were formed. The borders of St. Charles are the same today as they were in 1818, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 593 square miles, of which 560 square miles is land and 32 square miles is water. The highest elevation is 901 feet northwest of Augusta near Femme Osage Creek headwaters, lincoln County Calhoun County, Illinois Jersey County, Illinois Madison County, Illinois St. Louis County Franklin County Warren County I-64 – Major freeway in the western portion of the county. Originally U. S. Route 40, the highway was upgraded to Interstate standards in the late 2000s, the highway was resigned as Interstate 64 from the Daniel Boone Bridge to Interstate 70 in Wentzville in 2009. I-70 – The major east-west thoroughfare in the county and it is mostly a six-lane freeway throughout most of the county but there are sections in St. Charles and St. Peters where the Interstate widens to 11 lanes of traffic. Rte-370 – A six-lane freeway that connects Interstate 70 in St. Charles County, two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge As of 2010, there were 360,485 people,132,906 households, and 77,060 families residing in the county. The population density was 643 people per square mile, there were 142,766 housing units at an average density of 73 persons/km². The racial makeup of the county was 91. 3% White,4. 4% African American,0. 3% Native American,2. 3% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 9% of the population. 19. 40% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.18. In the county, the population was out with 29. 00% under the age of 18,8. 20% from 18 to 24,32. 60% from 25 to 44,21. 60% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 97.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.10 males, the median income for a household in the county was $71,458, and the median income for a family was $64,415
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Jefferson County, Missouri
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Jefferson County is a county in the eastern portion of the state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 218,733, the county was organized in 1818 and named in honor of former president Thomas Jefferson. In 1980, according to the U. S. census held that year, notably, this was the first census in which the center of population was west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson County is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 664 square miles, of which 657 square miles is land and 7.7 square miles is water. The countys eastern border is the Mississippi River and on the side is Illinois. Much of Jefferson County is in the projected totality path of the eclipse of August 21,2017. St. Louis County Monroe County, Illinois Ste, as of the census of 2000, there were 198,099 people,71,499 households, and 54,553 families residing in the county. The population density was 302 inhabitants per square mile, there were 75,586 housing units at an average density of 115 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 97. 48% White,0. 08% Black or African American,0. 29% Native American,0. 36% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,0. 24% from other races, and 0. 93% from two or more races. Approximately 1. 01% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,18. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the family size was 3.12. In the county, the population was out with 27. 90% under the age of 18,8. 50% from 18 to 24,31. 80% from 25 to 44,22. 50% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 98.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.90 males, the median income for a household in the county was $60,636, and the median income for a family was $66,697. Males had an income of $37,822 versus $25,440 for females. The per capita income for the county was $25,058, about 4. 90% of families and 6. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8. 10% of those under age 18 and 6. 30% of those age 65 or over. There were 146,316 registered voters in 2008, as of Oct.24,2012, there were 148,011. However, Republicans have made gains in recent years, they hold five of seven seats on the county council, Jefferson County is divided into seven legislative districts in the Missouri House of Representatives, six of which are held by Republicans and one held by a Democrat
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Franklin County, Missouri
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Franklin County is a county located in the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,492, the county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Franklin County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is located along the south side of the Missouri River. The county has wineries that are included in the Hermann AVA and is part of the known as the Missouri Rhineland. Occupied by succeeding cultures of peoples, this area was populated by the historic Osage tribe at the time of European encounter. The region was first settled by Europeans during the rule of the Spanish Empire, the Spanish log fort San Juan del Misuri was built in present-day Washington. After the American Revolutionary War, migrants from the new United States started moving West, among them were the family and followers of Daniel Boone, an explorer from Kentucky who settled the area starting in 1799. For the next two decades, most settlers came from the Upper South, especially Kentucky and Virginia, bringing their slaves with them to work the land, in 1833 substantial numbers of German immigrant families settled in the area, and soon they outnumbered the slaveowners. The Germans opposed slavery, and their descendants became strong supporters of the Union during the U. S. Civil War, the Confederate General Sterling Price led his troops in ransacking this area during the war when guerrilla warfare engulfed many areas of the state. Before the war the county was served by moving freight. Later it also became a transportation center. Manufacturing industries were established at the end of the Civil War, bias Vineyard, near the small city of Berger, is located within the Hermann American Viticultural Area, designated in 1983. Röbller Vineyard and Winery near New Haven is also in the Hermann AVA, wineries along both sides of the Missouri River are part of the Missouri Rhineland, whose vineyards were started by German immigrants in the mid-19th century. Before Prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation, everything was closed down except for limited production of wine allowed for religious purposes. The states wine industry had to be rebuilt, which has been taking place since the 1960s. The rural county has had problems with local production, distribution and consumption of methamphetamine. The struggles of the county with adverse effects of the drug, was explored in a 2005 A&E documentary entitled Meth, A County in Crisis. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 931 square miles
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Saint Francois County, MO
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St. Francois County /ˌseɪnt ˈfrænsᵻs/ is a county located in the Lead Belt region in the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,359, the largest city and county seat is Farmington. The county was organized on December 19,1821. It was named after the St. Francis River, the origin of the rivers name is unclear. It might refer to St. Francis of Assisi, another possibility is that Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit who explored the region in 1673, named the river for the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Marquette had spent some time at the mission of St. Francois Xavier before his voyage and, St. Francois County comprises the Farmington, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL Combined Statistical Area. The first European settlement in St. Francois County was made in the spring of 1796 at what is now known as Big River Mills by Andrew Baker, John Ally, Francis Starnater and they each located claims in 1794 but did not bring their families until 1796. Andrew Baker was the one who had a house, the rest lived in camps. Baker, who built a home along the north bank of Big River. At one time he reportedly owned 200 slaves and was one of the wealthiest men in the area, eventually all his children married and left the farm which consisted of 740 acres. The farm was sold for taxes and later sold for $30 per acre, several families settled that same year on Big River, among them were Elisha Baker, his son Elijah and Joseph Reed from Bois Brule Bottom. In 1798, Solomon George became the first to settle on Little St. Francois River, a memorable circumstance occurred around March 1,1797. Henry Fry and Rebecca Baker having concluded to be married, started, in company with Catharine Miller, Mary and Abraham Baker and William Patterson, genevieve, the nearest point where anyone authorized to perform the service could be found. This unfortunate adventure caused the postponement of the marriage for one year and that same year, other immigrants began coming to this new country. Among these was the Reverend William Murphy, a native of Ireland and he and his three sons Joseph, William and David, along with a friend, Silas George, arrived by boat that fall in Ste. None in that community could speak English, so a Mr. Madden and he invited them to his home, and the following day sent a Native American with them to show where good claims could be secured. David Murphy located his claim in the side of the selected site. After securing their claims, these men returned to Tennessee for their families, but sickness overtook them, and both the Reverend Murphy and Silas George died before reaching home
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Lincoln County, Missouri
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Lincoln County is a county in the eastern part of the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,566, the county was founded December 14,1818, and named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln of the American Revolutionary War. Lincoln County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. C, I lived for many years in Link-Horn County in old Kain-tuck. I wish to die in Link-Horn County, in Missouri, and I move, therefore, the motion was carried unanimously and the clerk, not adopting the frontier parlance of the Major, wrote Lincoln in the blank space of the bill. Others say it was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the countys eastern border with Illinois is formed by the Mississippi River. The population density was 62 people per square mile, there were 15,511 housing units at an average density of 25 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 96. 13% White,1. 74% Black or African American,0. 37% Native American,0. 17% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 43% from other races, and 1. 14% from two or more races. Approximately 1. 14% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,37. 7% were of German,17. 0% American,10. 9% Irish and 7. 4% English ancestry. 19. 70% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.17. In the county, the population was out with 30. 00% under the age of 18,8. 10% from 18 to 24,30. 20% from 25 to 44,21. 00% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 98.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.90 males, the median income for a household in the county was $42,592, and the median income for a family was $47,747. Males had an income of $35,564 versus $23,270 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,149, about 6. 20% of families and 8. 30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9. 60% of those under age 18 and 9. 00% of those age 65 or over. Alphonsus School – Silex – Roman Catholic Troy Holiness School – Troy – Methodist The Democratic Party mostly controls politics at the level in Lincoln County. Democrats hold all but six of the positions in the county. Lincoln County is divided into three districts in the Missouri House of Representatives. Consists of the northernmost section of the county, Consists of most of the entire county and includes the communities of Cave, Elsberry, Foley, Hawk Point, Silex, Troy, Truxton, and Whiteside
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Washington County, Missouri
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Washington County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,195, the largest city and county seat is Potosi. The county was organized on August 21,1813, and was named in honor of George Washington. The French explorers Renault and La Motte entered the area of present-day Potosi in 1722-23, however, no permanent settlements were made until 1763, when François Breton settled near Potosi and began to operate a mine bearing his name. The Bellview Valley, near Caledonia and Belgrade, was settled in 1802 by the families of Annanias McCoy, Benjamin Crow, Washington County was officially organized on August 21,1813, out of Ste. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 762 square miles. The population density was 31 people per square mile, there were 9,894 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 47% White,2. 48% Black or African American,0. 66% Native American,0. 15% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,0. 15% from other races, and 1. 08% from two or more races. Approximately 0. 73% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 00% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the family size was 3.05. In the county, the population was out with 26. 60% under the age of 18,9. 80% from 18 to 24,29. 20% from 25 to 44,22. 70% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 106.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.40 males, the median income for a household in the county was $32,001, and the median income for a family was $38,193. Males had an income of $27,871 versus $18,206 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,095, about 17. 10% of families and 20. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25. 40% of those under age 18 and 12. 90% of those age 65 or older. According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report, the most predominant denominations among residents in Washington County who adhere to a religion are Roman Catholics, Southern Baptists, and Baptist Missionary Association of America. The Democratic Party predominantly controls politics at the level in Washington County. Democrats hold all but five of the positions in the county
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Warren County, Missouri
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Warren County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,513, the county is located on the north side of the Missouri River. The county was organized on January 5,1833, and named for General Joseph Warren, Warren County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is traversed by Route 94, called the Missouri Weinstrasse because of the vineyards from Marthasville east into St. Charles County. Warren County is also part of the Missouri Rhineland, with award-winning wineries located on both sides of the Missouri River. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 438 square miles. The population density was 57 people per square mile, there were 11,046 housing units at an average density of 26 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 89% White,1. 94% Black or African American,0. 45% Native American,0. 24% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 44% from other races, and 1. 02% from two or more races. Approximately 1. 28% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, among the major ancestries reported in Warren County were 41. 4% German,13. 8% American,10. 2% Irish and 7. 0% English ancestry. 20. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.05. In the county, the population was out with 26. 90% under the age of 18,7. 60% from 18 to 24,28. 80% from 25 to 44,23. 70% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 98.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.10 males, the median income for a household in the county was $41,016, and the median income for a family was $46,863. Males had an income of $36,315 versus $23,443 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,690, about 6. 40% of families and 8. 60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 50% of those under age 18 and 10. 40% of those age 65 or over. All of the positions in the county are held by Republicans. Warren County is divided into two districts in the Missouri House of Representatives, both of which are held by Republicans. Consists of most of the county, including the communities of Marthasville, Pendeleton, Truesdale
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Metropolitan Statistical Area
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In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or town would be, as such, the precise definition of any given metropolitan area can vary with the source. A typical metropolitan area is centered on a large city that wields substantial influence over the region. However, some areas contain more than one large city with no single municipality holding a substantially dominant position. MSAs are defined by the Office of Management and Budget and used by the Census Bureau, U. S. Census statistics for metropolitan areas are reported according to the following definitions. The U. S. Office of Management and Budget defines a set of core based statistical areas throughout the country, CBSAs are delineated on the basis of a central urban area or urban cluster – in other words, a contiguous area of relatively high population density. CBSAs are composed of counties and county equivalents, the counties containing the core urban area are known as the central counties of the CBSA. Outlying counties are included in the CBSA if the employment interchange measure is 25% or more, although numbers are estimates. Some areas within these counties may be rural in nature. As well as MSAs, CBSAs are subdivided into statistical areas based on the population of the core urban area. Under certain conditions, one or more CBSAs may be grouped together to form a larger entity known as a combined statistical area. Previous terms that are no longer used include standard metropolitan statistical area, in New England, towns have precedence over counties, so statistically similar areas are defined in terms of town-based units known as New England city and town areas. United States of America Outline of the United States Index of United States-related articles Book, United States Demographics of the United States United States Census Bureau List of U. S
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List of United States metropolitan areas
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The United States Office of Management and Budget has defined 382 Metropolitan Statistical Areas for the United States and seven for Puerto Rico. S
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Central Time Zone
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The North American Central Time Zone is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Central Standard Time is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, during summer most of the zone uses daylight saving time, and changes to Central Daylight Time which is five hours behind UTC. The province of Manitoba is the province or territory in Canada that observes Central Time in all areas. Also, most of the province of Saskatchewan is on Central Standard Time year-round, major exceptions include Lloydminster, a city situated on the boundary between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city charter stipulates that it shall observe Mountain Time and DST, putting the community on the time as all of Alberta, including the major cities of Calgary. As a result, during the summer, clocks in the province match those in Alberta. The Central Time Zone is the second most populous in the US after the Eastern Time Zone, lanett and Valley observe Eastern Time historically because they were textile mill towns and the original home office of their mills was in West Point, Georgia. Some eastern counties observe Central Time because they are close to the border of the Middle Tennessee counties surrounding the Nashville metropolitan area. Louisiana Michigan, All of Michigan observes Eastern Time except the four Upper Peninsula counties that border Wisconsin, other westernmost counties from this area such as Ontonagon observe Eastern Time. South Dakota, Eastern half as divided by the Missouri river adjacent to the state capital, note, the metropolitan area of Pierre is Central, including Fort Pierre. Wisconsin Most of Mexico—roughly the eastern three-fourths—lies in the Central Time Zone, except for six northwestern states, the federal entities of Mexico that observe Central Time, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all use Central Standard Time year-round. The Galápagos Islands in Ecuador uses Central Standard Time all year-round, Daylight saving time is in effect in much of the Central time zone between mid-March and early November. The modified time is called Central Daylight Time and is UTC−5, in Canada, Saskatchewan does not observe a time change. One reason that Saskatchewan does not take part in a change is that, geographically. The province elected to move onto permanent daylight saving by being part of the Central Time Zone, Mexico decided not to go along with this change and observes their horario de verano from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. In December 2009, the Mexican Congress allowed ten border cities, eight of which are in states that observe Central Time, to adopt the U. S. daylight time schedule effective in 2010
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Daylight saving time
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Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use Daylight Savings Time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring, American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin proposed a form of daylight time in 1784. New Zealander George Hudson proposed the idea of saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30,1916, many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s. The practice has both advocates and critics, DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates, industrialized societies generally follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that do not change throughout the course of the year. The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, North and south of the tropics daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter, with the effect becoming greater as one moves away from the tropics. However, they will have one hour of daylight at the start of each day. Supporters have also argued that DST decreases energy consumption by reducing the need for lighting and heating, DST is also of little use for locations near the equator, because these regions see only a small variation in daylight in the course of the year. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season, unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some monasteries of Mount Athos and all Jewish ceremonies. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells, despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST, 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklins day. Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, whose shift work job gave him time to collect insects. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk and his solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament Robert Pearce, a select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearces bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915, william Sword Frost, mayor of Orillia, Ontario, introduced daylight saving time in the municipality during his tenure from 1911 to 1912. Starting on April 30,1916, the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST as a way to conserve coal during wartime, Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the year
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Metropolitan area
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As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions. The Greater São Paulo is a term for one of the multiple definitions the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil. A metropolitan area combines an urban agglomeration with zones not necessarily urban in character and these outlying zones are sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban zone, to other political entities. For example, El Monte, California is considered part of the Los Angeles metro area in the United States, in practice, the parameters of metropolitan areas, in both official and unofficial usage, are not consistent. Population figures given for one area can vary by millions. A polycentric metropolitan area is one not connected by continuous development or conurbation, in defining a metropolitan area, it is sufficient that a city or cities form a nucleus that other areas have a high degree of integration with. The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines statistical divisions as areas under the influence of one or more major towns or a major city. However, this definition has become obsolete with the conurbation of several statistical divisions into a larger metropolitan areas. In Brazil, metropolitan areas are called metropolitan regions, each State defines its own legislation for the creation, definition and organization of a metropolitan region. The creation of a region is not intended for any statistical purpose, although the Brazilian Institute of Geography. Their main purpose is to allow for a management of public policies of common interest to all cities involved. They dont have political, electoral or jurisdictional power whatsoever, so living in a metropolitan region do not elect representatives for them. Statistics Canada defines a metropolitan area as an area consisting of one or more adjacent municipalities situated around a major urban core. To form a CMA, the area must have a population of at least 100,000. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a degree of integration with the core. As of the Canada 2011 Census, there were 33 CMAs in Canada, including six with a population over one million—Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton. In Denmark the only area is Greater Copenhagen, consisting of the Capital Region of Denmark along with the neighboring regions Region Zealand. Greater Copenhagen has an population of 1.25 million people
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Combined statistical area
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A combined statistical area is composed of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. These areas that retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area. The primary distinguishing factor between a CSA and an MSA is that the social and economic ties between the individual MSAs within a CSA are at lower levels than between the counties within an MSA, cSAs represent multiple metropolitan or micropolitan areas that have an employment interchange of 25. CSAs often represent regions with overlapping labor and media markets, as of July 2012, there are 166 combined statistical areas in the United States, plus three in Puerto Rico. S. S. Combined Statistical Areas of the United States and Puerto Rico, link United States Government United States Census Bureau 2010 United States Census USCB population estimates United States Office of Management and Budget
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Southern Illinois
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Southern Illinois is the southern third of the state of Illinois. With the area code 618, the part of Illinois is geographically, culturally. It is considered a part of downstate Illinois, Southern Illinois most populated city is currently Belleville at 44,478. Other principal cities include Alton, Centralia, Collinsville, Edwardsville, OFallon, Harrisburg, Mt. Vernon, Marion, and Carbondale, residents travel to amenities in St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Evansville, Indiana, and Paducah, Kentucky. The region is home to a major military installation, Scott Air Force Base. The area has a population of 1.2 million people, who live mostly in towns and cities separated by extensive farmland. The first settlers migrated from the Upland South, traveling by the Ohio River, some settlers even owned slaves before the territory was organized and it was prohibited. Many areas developed an economy based on coal mining, Southern Illinois is slowly gaining a cultural identity apart from its neighbors. Formerly dispersed rural populations have more concentrated in the cities of Carbondale and Belleville. The earliest inhabitants of Illinois are thought to have arrived about 12,000 BC and they were hunter-gatherers, but also developed a primitive system of agriculture. After AD1000, agricultural surpluses enabled them to develop complex, Cahokia, located in present-day Collinsville, Illinois, was the major regional center of this culture. It contains the largest prehistoric earthworks in the Americas, and has designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mound builders culture seems to have collapsed between AD 1400–1500, the Mississippians had abandoned Cahokia long before the first European explorers arrived. The Illinois Indian tribes, for whom the state is named, archeologists say they were not descendants of the earlier inhabitants. The Illini left numerous artifacts, including sites, burned-out campfires along the bases of bluffs, pottery, flint implements. Structures built by them include stone forts or pounds, visitors can see a stone fort in Giant City State Park near Makanda. At least eight such structures are known in the region. In about 1673, French explorers from Quebec became the first Europeans to reach Illinois, the French named the area Illinois after the Indians who had welcomed them
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Bond County, Illinois
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Bond County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,768, Bond County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bond County was formed in 1817 out of Madison County, the countys primary city, Greenville, had a post office from 1819 and was incorporated as a town in 1855 and as a city in 1872. A few possible reasons have been put forth for the naming of the town, some think the town was named after Greenville, North Carolina, which had been named after Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Others say that Greenville was named by early settler Thomas White because it was so green, a third possibility is that Greenville was named after Green P. Rice, the towns first merchant. In 1824, a vote taken on slavery in Bond County had received 240 votes against and 63 votes for slavery, in Bond County, at one point 14 slaves were registered to eight owners. One slave, Silas Register, took his last name from the act of being registered at the county clerks office, Register was the last known Bond County slave to survive, he died in 1872 at the age of 76. A few of the slaves are buried in the county with the families they were indentured to. One former slave, Fanny, was free after her owners moved out of the state and worked in the town so that she could buy her husband, Stephen, during the 1840s, Bond County played host to a few people conducting slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Teacher T. A. Jones lived in Reno and in 2008, slaves were often spirited from Missouri, sometimes through Carlyle to Bond County. Rev. John Leeper was able to disguise his Underground Railroad activities due to his milling business, dr. Henry Perrine practiced medicine near Greenville and helped with the secret railroad activities. Rev. George Dennys house was found in the 1930s to conceal a secret chamber that had used in the Railroad. Greenville College was founded as Almira College in 1855, long declared the founding of Almira and Greenville ran parallel, for both were founded on prayer. The Illinois State Register reported of the occasion, Ive seen many gatherings in Old Bond county but I never saw anything equal to this and I never expect to. On November 21,1915, the Liberty Bell passed through Greenville on its nationwide tour returning to Pennsylvania from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, after that trip, the Liberty Bell returned to Pennsylvania and will not be moved again. The Greenville Public Library was established as a Carnegie library and is on the National Register of Historic Places, hogue Hall at Greenville College also appears on the National Register. Ronald Reagan visited Greenville on the trail in the 1980s. Women in Bond County could vote for the first time in 1914, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 383 square miles, of which 380 square miles is land and 2.5 square miles is water
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Calhoun County, Illinois
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Calhoun County is a county in the U. S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,089, Calhoun County is at the tip of the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and is almost completely surrounded by water. Often referred to as The Island, Calhoun County is sparsely populated, it has just five municipalities, Calhoun County is part of the Metro-East portion of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The territory was settled by indigenous people who occupied the resource-rich river valleys near waterways. The remains of their occupation have provided some of the most valuable information in the country. The countys archaeological record chronicles more than 10,000 years of human settlement by Native Americans. Calhoun County was settled by European Americans during the 19th century and it was named for Vice President John C. The southern side of the county, covered in thick forest, was untouched until the population began to expand in the late 1840s with the arrival of German immigrants. Land was cleared for farming, exporting lumber, and constructing spacious log barns, typically 200 square feet in size, which were a trademark of successful German farmers. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 284 square miles. Calhoun County is a narrow 37-mile -long peninsula of mostly high, the rolling hills escaped the leveling of glaciers. County transportation is served by two state-operated, free ferries crossing the Illinois River, the Golden Eagle ferry, which is privately operated and charges a toll, crosses the Mississippi River to St. Charles County, Missouri. A bridge spans the Illinois River at Hardin, land routes connect to the north to bordering Pike County. When transportation was mainly by river, the county had many prosperous farms and it still produces a major portion of the peach crop of Illinois, and farmers raise corn and other commodities. The hotel in Brussels dates from 1847, when it was a stagecoach stop, the county is popular with tourists due to the natural beauty of the Illinois River valley and its proximity to the Great River Road on the Illinois side. It includes part of the Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge and attracts thousands of birds in migration seasons as part of the Mississippi Flyway, the county has several designated historic districts in the villages and properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Calhoun County was added to the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2003, along with Bond and Macoupin counties in Illinois, the Center for American Archeology is located in Kampsville in the northern part of the county. It has been the center for study of indigenous culture in the area
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Clinton County, Illinois
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Clinton County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,762, in 1960, the U. S. Census Bureau placed the mean center of U. S. population in Clinton County. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, in 1805, prior to the establishment of the county, the territorial government established a post road from its capital to St. Louis, Missouri, passing through the county. In 1808 a wagon road was out through what is now Clinton County. The road extended from the Goshen Settlement to the Ohio salt works, Clinton County was created on December 27,1824 out of Washington, Fayette, and Bond Counties. It was named in honor of the seventh Governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton, crossing the Kaskaskia became much easier when the bridge now known as the General Dean Suspension Bridge was built in 1859, at a cost of $40,000. Before the bridge was constructed travelers had been forced to cross by ferry or over a mud bridge, the Illinois General Assembly set aside $20,000 for bridge restoration in 1951 and in 1953 the bridge was named after William F. Dean. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 503 square miles. Eldon Hazlet State Recreation Area and South Shore State Park are in Clinton County and its southern border is the Kaskaskia River. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 2.17 inches in January to 4.44 inches in June. Clair County - west Washington County - south As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 37,762 people,14,005 households, the population density was 79.7 inhabitants per square mile. There were 15,311 housing units at a density of 32.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 93. 4% white,3. 5% black or African American,0. 4% Asian,0. 2% American Indian,1. 2% from other races, and 1. 1% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 2. 8% of the population, in terms of ancestry,54. 8% were German,9. 8% were Irish,5. 8% were English, and 5. 6% were American. The average household size was 2.55 and the family size was 3.02. The median age was 39.3 years, the median income for a household in the county was $55,278 and the median income for a family was $66,682. Males had an income of $45,119 versus $34,051 for females. The per capita income for the county was $25,392, about 5. 2% of families and 7. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9. 2% of those under age 18 and 5. 7% of those age 65 or over
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Jersey County, Illinois
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Jersey County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 22,985, Jersey County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Jersey County lies just northeast of where the great Mississippi and Illinois rivers meet and it is the former home of the Kickapoo, Menomini, Potawatomi, and Illiniwek Confederation American Indians. The first European explorers to visit the area, Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet, arrived in 1673, the present day Pere Marquette State Park, located near Grafton, is named in Father Marquettes honor, and a monument to him is located at the park. Jersey County was founded on February 28,1839, and was formed out of Greene County, the county was named for the state of New Jersey, from which many of the early settlers emigrated - which was itself named for the Channel Island of Jersey in Great Britain. The area quickly evolved into several small agricultural communities, as the area soon began to flourish, a county government was established and a courthouse was built in Jerseyville, the county seat. The present courthouse is a magnificent architectural structure that was built in 1893, today, while the county maintains its agricultural base, it is also within commuting distance of jobs and industry in St. Louis, Missouri and the surrounding area. A large portion of the population works outside of Jersey County and benefits from being Near the crowd, the official slogan of the Jersey County Business Associations advertising campaign. The bordering rivers play an important part in Jersey Countys economy by supporting agricultural producers and agribusiness, Education, manufacturing, and retail are among the countys largest industries. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 377 square miles. Jersey County is bordered by three bodies of water, the Mississippi River to the south, the Illinois River to the west, spring is the wettest season and produces severe weather ranging from tornadoes to snow or ice storms. Summers are hot and humid, and the humidity makes the heat index rise to temperatures feeling well above 100 °F. Fall is mild with lower humidity and can produce intermittent bouts of rainfall with the first snow flurries usually forming in late November. Winters can be cold at times with light snow and temperatures below freezing. In recent years, average temperatures in Jerseyville have ranged from a low of 17 °F in January to a high of 88 °F in July. The record low temperature of −25 °F was recorded in January 1977, average monthly precipitation ranges from 1.92 inches in January to 4.14 inches in April. Greene County - north Macoupin County - east Madison County - southeast St. Charles County, the population density was 62.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 9,848 housing units at a density of 26.7 per square mile
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Macoupin County, Illinois
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Macoupin County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U. S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 47,765, Macoupin County is part of the Metro-East region of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The primary industry is agriculture, consisting of crops of corn, soybeans, the region was previously inhabited by Illinoisan Indians when the first white settlers arrived. Indeed, macoupin is the Miami-Illinois term for the American lotus, none of the native Indians remain, although some descendants of the earliest European settlers claim partial ancestry. The first European contact was by French explorers in the seventeenth century, the main European settlement was from the southwest, as people moved inland from the established transportation route of the Mississippi River. Macoupin County was established on January 17,1829 and it was formed out of Greene and Madison Counties and was named after Macoupin Creek, which runs near Carlinville and meanders southwest to the Illinois River. The economy was based on agriculture, and communication was to the southwest. In the middle 19th century, Illinois developed and changed rapidly, the greatest change was in the building of railroads, and Macoupin County was on the rail and road transportation link between St. Louis and the still-young metropolis of Chicago. The county lies midway between St. Louis and the state capital of Springfield. The economy was based entirely on agriculture, but there was now easier access to markets. Towns were small, sparsely distributed, and any new communities were founded along the lines that provided transportation. Culturally, the county remained closer to its ties with St. Louis than to more northerly areas within the state. Agriculture remained a mainstay of the economy, but this was joined by coal mining, with coal underlying the entire region, the most economical development was to place mines alongside the railroad tracks, and located in or near already-existing towns. By the twentieth century, there were mines in many towns, during the twentieth century, agriculture and coal mining remained the mainstays of the countys economy, and the countys fortunes rose and fell with them. Macoupin County was often at the center of labor disputes between mine owners and miners, and was a hotbed of union activity. Agriculture remained as the prime economic activity, but farming became a large-scale corporate enterprise. Coal mining decreased, and has almost disappeared entirely, buildings and structures related to coal mining were torn down as they wasted away, so that there is now little to see of this once-major industry. Towns were characterized either by a town square layout, or by a main street layout
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Madison County, Illinois
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Madison County is a county in the U. S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 269,282, the county seat is Edwardsville, and its largest city is Granite City. Madison County is part of the Metro-East region of the St. Louis, the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia Mounds a World Heritage Site was located near Collinsville. Edwardsville is home to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, to the north, Alton is known for its abolitionist and American Civil War-era history. It is also the home of Southern Illinois University Dental School, Madison County was established on September 14,1812. It was formed parts of Randolph and St. Clair counties. At the time of its formation, Madison County included all of the modern State of Illinois north of St. Louis, as well as all of Wisconsin, part of Minnesota, and Michigans Upper Peninsula. The county had a working population, and the county. Industrial restructuring cost many jobs and reduced the population, the county now is part of semi-rural, sparsely populated east of the St. Louis metropolitan area, as is neighboring St. Clair County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 741 square miles. Madison County is on the Mississippi River, while the major body of water is Horseshoe Lake. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 1.99 inches in January to 4.24 inches in May, Madison County Transit serves the county with 25 bus routes and 85 miles of bike trails. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 269,282 people,108,094 households, the population density was 376.3 inhabitants per square mile. There were 117,106 housing units at a density of 163.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 88. 2% white,7. 9% black or African American,0. 8% Asian,0. 2% American Indian,0. 9% from other races, and 1. 8% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 2. 7% of the population, in terms of ancestry,32. 7% were German,14. 9% were Irish,10. 5% were English,7. 5% were American, and 5. 7% were Italian. The average household size was 2.46 and the family size was 2.98. The median age was 38.6 years, the median income for a household in the county was $51,941 and the median income for a family was $64,630
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Monroe County, Illinois
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Monroe County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 32,957 and its county seat and largest city is Waterloo. Monroe County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is located in the southern portion of Illinois known locally as Little Egypt. Indigenous peoples lived along the Mississippi River and related waterways for thousands of years before European contact, french Jesuit priests in the Illinois Country encountered the Kaskaskia and Cahokia, bands of the Illiniwek confederacy. This early agricultural community quickly produced a surplus, and grains were sold to the lower Louisiana colony for years and they were integral to that communitys survival, as its climate did not allow cultivation of such staple grains. After the American Revolution, Monroe County was formed in 1816 out of Randolph and St. Clair counties, as the 8th county created from the then Illinois Territory. Illinois Territorial Laws 1815-16, p.25 It was named in honor of James Monroe, who had just served as United States Secretary of War and its first county seat was Harrisonville, named for William Henry Harrison, former governor of the Northwest Territory and future President. Harrison invested in several tracts of land in the American Bottoms above Harrisonville, mostly in the present precinct of Moredock, Waterloo was designated as the mantle of county seat in 1825. The sites of the towns of St. Philippe and Harrisonville were submerged by the Mississippi River. Crews cut so many trees that banks destabilized and collapsed in the current, making the river wider and this change caused more severe flooding, as well as lateral channel changes, such as the one that cut off the village of Kaskaskia from the Illinois mainland. An unincorporated community of Harrisonville was re-established east of the original site, the bounds of Monroe County in 1816 did not include Precincts 1 and 6, Precinct 1 and most of 6 was added in 1825 from St. Clair County. The strip of Precinct 6 from the township line east to the Kaskaskia was added, once again from St. Clair. Some minor adjustments and clarifications of the boundaries have taken place, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 398 square miles, of which 385 square miles is land and 13 square miles is water. The western part of the county on the Mississippi River is part of the American Bottom floodplain, the transition zone between has high bluffs of limestone and dolomite and has distinctive Karst topography with numerous sinkholes, caves, and springs. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 2.32 inches in January to 4.25 inches in July, interstate 255 Illinois Route 3 Illinois Route 156 Illinois Route 159 Illinois Route 158 St. Clair County - northeast Randolph County - southeast Ste. The population density was 85.6 inhabitants per square mile, there were 13,392 housing units at an average density of 34.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 98. 0% white,0. 4% Asian,0. 2% American Indian,0. 2% black or African American,0. 3% from other races, and 0. 8% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1. 4% of the population, in terms of ancestry,53. 9% were German,16. 5% were Irish,9. 6% were English, and 6. 2% were American
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St. Clair County, Illinois
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St. Clair County is the oldest county in the U. S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 270,056, making it the eighth most populous county in Illinois and the most populous in the southern portion of the state. The county was founded in 1790, before the establishment of Illinois itself, St. Clair County is part of the American Bottom or Metro-East area of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1970, the U. S. Census Bureau placed the center of U. S. population in St. Clair County. St. Clair County was the first county established in what is today Illinois, in fact the county antedates Illinois existence as a separate entity. It was established in 1790 by proclamation of Arthur St. Clair, first governor of the Northwest Territory, in its original boundaries, St. Clair county covered a large area between the Mackinaw and Ohio Rivers. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 674 square miles. Urban decay, and urban prairie are common in the formerly industrialized, other cities in St. Clair County border agricultural or vacant lands. Unlike the suburbs on the Missouri side of the metro area, the eastern and southern portion of the county is sparsely populated, dotted with older small communities and small tracts of newer suburban villages between large swathes of corn and soybean fields. Louis, Illinois was recorded in July 1954, average monthly precipitation ranged from 2.02 inches in January to 4.18 inches in May. St. Clair County is home to 11 St. Louis MetroLink stations on the Red, the population density was 410.6 inhabitants per square mile. There were 116,249 housing units at a density of 176.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 64. 6% white,30. 5% black or African American,1. 2% Asian,0. 2% American Indian,0. 1% Pacific islander,1. 2% from other races, and 2. 2% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 3. 3% of the population, in terms of ancestry,27. 5% were German,11. 1% were Irish,7. 4% were English, and 4. 6% were American. The average household size was 2.53 and the family size was 3.09. The median age was 36.9 years, the median income for a household in the county was $48,562 and the median income for a family was $61,042. Males had an income of $47,958 versus $34,774 for females. The per capita income for the county was $24,770, about 12. 3% of families and 15. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24. 7% of those under age 18 and 9. 7% of those age 65 or over
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Metro East
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Metro East is a region in Illinois that comprises the eastern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It encompasses five Southern Illinois counties in the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area, the regions most populated city is Belleville, with 45,000 residents. The significant growth in the Metro East is mainly due to people in outlying towns in Illinois moving to the area for better economic/job opportunities. The Metro East is a collection of small and mid-sized cities sitting along the American Bottom. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the five counties of the region have an area of 6,974 km².6,787 km² of it is land and 186 km² of it is water. As of the 2010 census, the most populated cities in the region include
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List of Missouri counties
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There are 114 counties and one independent city in the U. S. state of Missouri. Most subsequent counties were apportioned from these five original counties, in Missouri, the county level of government comes between those of the city and the state. Its primary responsibilities include maintaining roads, providing security, prosecuting criminals, elected officials at this level include a sheriff, prosecuting attorney, and assessor. Most of the counties in Missouri are named after politicians, other counties are named after war heroes, natural resources, explorers, and former U. S. territories. The city of St. Louis is an independent city, and is not within the limits of a county and its residents voted to secede from St. Louis County in 1876. Throughout the United States, St. Louis is one of three independent cities outside the state of Virginia, population figures are based on the 2010 United States Census. According to that census, the population of Missouri is 5,988,927, the average population of Missouri’s counties is 52,078, St. Louis County is the most populous, and Worth County is the least. The average land area is 599 sq mi, the largest county is Texas County and the smallest is St. Louis city. The Federal Information Processing Standard is used by the U. S. government to identify counties. These codes link to the United States Census Bureaus quick facts for each county, to distinguish from counties in other states, one must use Missouri’s FIPS code,29. For example, Adair Countys unique nationwide identifier is 29001, List of cities in Missouri List of U. S
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Crawford County, Missouri
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Crawford County is a county located in the U. S. state of Missouri. At the 2010 Census, the population was 24,696, the county was organized in 1829 and is named after U. S. Senator William H. Crawford of Georgia, the section of Sullivan which is located in Crawford County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1990, the center of U. S. population was located in Crawford County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 744 square miles. The population density was 31 per square mile, there were 10,850 housing units at an average density of 15 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 98. 26% White,0. 14% Black or African American,0. 43% Native American,0. 13% Asian,0. 06% Pacific Islander,0. 14% from other races, and 0. 82% from two or more races. Approximately 0. 77% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 30% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the family size was 3.00. 26. 30% of the population were under the age of 18,7. 90% from 18 to 24,26. 90% from 25 to 44,23. 10% from 45 to 64, the median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 97.30 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.60 males. The median household income was $37,554 and the family income was $45,059. Males had an income of $28,005 compared with $18,736 for females. The per capita income was $18,203, about 12. 70% of families and 16. 30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23. 30% of those under age 18 and 14. 10% of those age 65 or over. Republicans hold all elected positions in the county, except for the Associate Circuit Court Judge, in the Missouri House of Representatives, almost all of Crawford County is a part of Missouri’s 120th District and is represented by Jason Chipman, a Republican from Steelville, Missouri. In the Missouri Senate, all of Crawford County is a part of Missouri’s 16th District and is represented by Republican Dan W. Brown of Rolla, Crawford County is like most rural counties, socially conservative and vote in favor of the Republican Party. Bill Clinton was the last Democratic presidential nominee to win Crawford County in 1996, since then, voters in the county have substantially supported Republicans at the national level. In the 2008 Missouri Presidential Primary, voters in Crawford County from both parties supported candidates who finished in second place in the state at large and nationally
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Farmington, Missouri
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Farmington is a city in St. Francois County located 72 miles southwest of St. Louis in the Lead Belt region in Missouri in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,240 and it is the county seat of St. Francois County. The Farmington Micropolitan Statistical Area includes St. Francois County and Washington County and has a population of 90,554 as of 2010, Farmington is a component of the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL Combined Statistical Area, also known as Greater St. Louis. Farmington was established in 1822 as Murphys Settlement, named for William Murphy of Kentucky who first visited the site in 1798, when St. Francois County was organized, the town was briefly called St. Francois Court House and later renamed to Farmington. Farmington is located at 37°46′55″N 90°25′20″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.39 square miles, of which,9.35 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles is water. William Murphy arrived on the land west of the Mississippi River in 1798, deciding that this was an excellent place to set up home, Murphy acquired a Spanish Land Grant, allowing him and his family to establish a settlement along the St. Francois River. Sarah Barton Murphy is known to have assembled the premier Protestant Sunday School west of the Mississippi River, because Spanish law barred any religious services that were not Roman Catholic, Murphy and her students orchestrated the learning in secret. A post office in Murphy’s Settlement opened in 1817, following the annexation of the land to the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, Missouri became a state in 1821 as part of the Missouri Compromise. In 1822, David Murphy made a contribution of 52 acres of land for the installation of the county seat of what was soon to be St. Francois County, Murphys Settlement was renamed Farmington in 1825, taking the name from the areas rich farm land. Farmington was granted incorporation as a town in 1836 and became a village 20 years later in 1856, in the mid-19th century, Farmington enjoyed growth and economic well-being through the building of the historic Plank Road, which stretched from Pilot Knob to Ste. The road was built to transport supplies from the shipping facilities located along the river to the mines and to move the mine’s iron ore to the shipping facilities. The route was taken over by the St. Louis. The first public school was constructed in 1870 and in 1879, Farmington gained the recognition as a fourth-class city–an accolade that was surpassed in 1981 when Farmington became a third-class city. The airline Multi-Aero, which flies passenger airline services as Air Choice One, has its headquarters in Farmington, farmingtons publicly elected government consists of a Mayor and eight City Council members representing the citys four Wards who set city policy. The citys policies are carried out by a City Administrator who works closely with the City Clerk, City Council, list of Farmington mayors The Farmington R-VII School District serves the citys need for public education. During the 2008–2009 school year, there was a total of 3,743 students and 306 certified staff members enrolled in the Farmington R-VII School District, the school colors are black and gold and the mascot is the knight. Athletics offered in the district include boys and girls basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, track, boys baseball, golf, football, wrestling. Other activities include band cheerleading, colorguard, winter guard, dance team, FFA, AFJROTC, TSA, elementary Secondary Farmington is also home to two private schools that serve both the educational and religious needs of some students and their families in the community
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St. Francois County, Missouri
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St. Francois County /ˌseɪnt ˈfrænsᵻs/ is a county located in the Lead Belt region in the U. S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,359, the largest city and county seat is Farmington. The county was organized on December 19,1821. It was named after the St. Francis River, the origin of the rivers name is unclear. It might refer to St. Francis of Assisi, another possibility is that Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit who explored the region in 1673, named the river for the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Marquette had spent some time at the mission of St. Francois Xavier before his voyage and, St. Francois County comprises the Farmington, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL Combined Statistical Area. The first European settlement in St. Francois County was made in the spring of 1796 at what is now known as Big River Mills by Andrew Baker, John Ally, Francis Starnater and they each located claims in 1794 but did not bring their families until 1796. Andrew Baker was the one who had a house, the rest lived in camps. Baker, who built a home along the north bank of Big River. At one time he reportedly owned 200 slaves and was one of the wealthiest men in the area, eventually all his children married and left the farm which consisted of 740 acres. The farm was sold for taxes and later sold for $30 per acre, several families settled that same year on Big River, among them were Elisha Baker, his son Elijah and Joseph Reed from Bois Brule Bottom. In 1798, Solomon George became the first to settle on Little St. Francois River, a memorable circumstance occurred around March 1,1797. Henry Fry and Rebecca Baker having concluded to be married, started, in company with Catharine Miller, Mary and Abraham Baker and William Patterson, genevieve, the nearest point where anyone authorized to perform the service could be found. This unfortunate adventure caused the postponement of the marriage for one year and that same year, other immigrants began coming to this new country. Among these was the Reverend William Murphy, a native of Ireland and he and his three sons Joseph, William and David, along with a friend, Silas George, arrived by boat that fall in Ste. None in that community could speak English, so a Mr. Madden and he invited them to his home, and the following day sent a Native American with them to show where good claims could be secured. David Murphy located his claim in the side of the selected site. After securing their claims, these men returned to Tennessee for their families, but sickness overtook them, and both the Reverend Murphy and Silas George died before reaching home
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Table of United States Combined Statistical Areas
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A combined statistical area is composed of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. These areas that retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area. The primary distinguishing factor between a CSA and an MSA is that the social and economic ties between the individual MSAs within a CSA are at lower levels than between the counties within an MSA, cSAs represent multiple metropolitan or micropolitan areas that have an employment interchange of 25. CSAs often represent regions with overlapping labor and media markets, as of July 2012, there are 166 combined statistical areas in the United States, plus three in Puerto Rico. S. S. Combined Statistical Areas of the United States and Puerto Rico, link United States Government United States Census Bureau 2010 United States Census USCB population estimates United States Office of Management and Budget
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Fortune 500
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The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest U. S. corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years. The list includes public companies, along with privately held companies for which revenues are publicly available, the concept of the Fortune 500 was created by Edgar P. Smith, a Fortune editor, and the first list was published in 1955. The Fortune 500 is more used than its subset Fortune 100 or wider list Fortune 1000. The original Fortune 500 was limited to companies whose revenues were derived from manufacturing, mining, at the same time, Fortune published companion Fortune 50 lists of the 50 largest commercial banks, utilities, life insurance companies, retailers and transportation companies. Fortune magazine changed its methodology in 1994 to include service companies, with the change came 291 new entrants to the famous list including three in the Top 10. The Fortune 500 was first published in 1955, created by Edgar P. Smith, the original top ten companies were General Motors, Exxon Mobil, U. S. Steel, General Electric, Esmark, Chrysler, Armour, Gulf Oil, Mobil and DuPont
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Express Scripts
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One of its largest clients is the United States Department of Defenses Tricare program. Express Scripts also offers pharmacy benefit management services for workers compensation insurance programs, the program is accredited by URAC, the nations largest accrediting body for pharmacy benefit management companies. The company processes pharmaceutical claims for members through a network of retail pharmacies and its own automated pharmacies dispense long-term, chronic medications-like those for diabetes or heart disease-directly to members via home delivery. Express Scripts began in 1986 in St. Louis, Missouri as a result of a joint venture between a chain of more than 79 pharmacies and Sanus Corp. Express Scripts was purchased by New York Life Insurance Company in 1989, in 1993, Express Scripts signed on both FHP International Corp. and Maxicare Health Care and corporate clients Lockheed Corp. Service Merchandise Co. and Ingersoll-Rand Co, in 1994, the company expanded its services by adding workers’ compensation prescription services and reinsurance. In 1994, the company announced a stock split and in 1996. The same year, the company began the annual Drug Trend Report, in April 1998, Express Scripts Inc. acquired ValueRx, the PBM business of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. The following year, in April 1999, the company purchased Diversified Pharmaceutical Services from SmithKline Beecham Corp for $700 million and that same year, the company purchased stock in PlanetRx. com. This partnership offered members options for purchasing prescriptions and over-the-counter health products online, in 2000, the company had to write off its $165 million relationship with PlanetRx. com when the startup experienced financial difficulties. In 2001, Express Scripts Inc. partnered with Merck-Medco and Advance PSC to form RxHub LLC, in late December 2006, Express Scripts made a proposal to purchase Caremark. Express Scripts lost the race to acquire Caremark to CVS Corporation, in October 2007, Express Scripts acquired ConnectYourCare, and now handles FSA, HRA and HSA accounts for companies such as Suntrust, Zions Bancorporation and Allegis. However, Express Scripts divested ConnectYourCare in August 2012, Express Scripts, the United States third largest PBM, closed the transaction in December 2009. In April 2012, Express Scripts completed a $29.1 billion acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, the Federal Trade Commission gave formal approval on April 2,2012 after an anti-trust investigation. The acquisition positioned Express Scripts Holding Co. as the largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts has 30,000 employees worldwide. Most employees in the St. Louis area are located in its new 220, two other buildings for employees exist, along with a Technology Innovation Center, which houses a pharmacy. As of July 2016, Express Scripts has a 1 star out of 5 stars rating on ConsumerAffairs. Com, based on 311 ratings. Of those 311 ratings,297 gave a 1 star,9 gave a 2 stars,2 gave a 3 stars,1 gave a 4 stars, and 2 gave a 5 stars
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Emerson Electric
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The Emerson Electric Company is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Ferguson, Missouri, United States. This Fortune 500 company manufactures products and provides engineering services for a range of industrial, commercial. Emerson has approximately 111,000 employees and 205 manufacturing locations worldwide, in 1892, it became the first to sell electric fans in the United States. It quickly expanded its line to include electric sewing machines, electric dental drills. During World War II, under the leadership of Stuart Symington, Emerson became the worlds largest manufacturer of airplane armament, Emerson ranked 52nd among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. Symington went on to become the first United States Secretary of the Air Force from 1947-1950, senator from Missouri from 1953-1976, and a candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 1960. In 1954, W. R. Buck Persons was named company president, under his leadership, Emerson diversified its business portfolio by acquiring 36 companies. When he retired in 1973, the company had 82 plants,31,000 employees, in 1962, acquired United States Electrical Manufacturing Company as the U. S. Electrical Motors Division, including the brand U. S. MOTORS®, Charles F. Knight served as CEO from 1973 to 2000, and was chairman from 1974 to 2004. His tenure was marked by development of a planning process, new product and technology development, acquisitions and joint ventures. David Farr has served as CEO since 2000 and as chairman since 2004, on December 15,1999, Emerson Electric Co, moving to boost its growth prospects, agreed to acquire Jordan Industries Incs telecommunications equipment business for $440 million. MOTORS® brand sold to Nidec Motor Corporation, on July 26,2011, Emerson announced it would locate its Latin America headquarters in Sunrise, Florida. On December 1,2016, Platinum Equity acquired Emerson Network Power business unit, the acquisition included the brands, Asco, Chloride, Liebert, Netsure, and Trellis. The companys leaders since the century have been, respectively, W. R. Persons, Charles Knight. The companys chairmen of the board have been, respectively, Charles Knight, as of 2014, the role of chief marketing officer was held by Kathy Button Bell. Major pollutants indicated by the study include nickel compounds, manganese, diisocyanate, the scene depicted Claire Bennet reaching into an active garbage disposal to retrieve a ring, and severely injuring her hand in the process. Emerson asked for a ruling barring future broadcasts of the pilot and it also sought to block NBC from using any Emerson trademarks in the future. Emerson is a market competitor with General Electric, the owner of NBC at the time of the shows airing
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Monsanto
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Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Greater St. Louis, Monsanto is a leading producer of genetically engineered seed and Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide. Notable achievements by Monsanto include research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation and the first mass-produced light emitting diodes in addition to its work on genetic engineering, Monsanto was one of four groups to introduce genes into plants, and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops. Monsanto was one of the first companies to apply the biotechnology industry business model to agriculture, in this business model, companies recoup R&D expenses by exploiting biological patents. Monsantos roles in agricultural changes, biotechnology products and lobbying of government agencies, the company once manufactured controversial products such as the insecticide DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange and recombinant bovine growth hormone. Its seed patenting model was criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity, in September 2016 Monsanto agreed to accept Bayers offer to purchase the company for $66 billion, pending regulatory approval. In 1901 Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, the founder was John Francis Queeny, a 30‑year veteran of the nascent pharmaceutical industry. He funded the firm with his own money and capital from a soft drink distributor and he used his wifes maiden name for the company. The companys first products were commodity food additives, such as the sweetener saccharin, caffeine. Monsanto expanded to Europe in 1919 in a partnership with Graessers Chemical Works at Cefn Mawr, the venture produced vanillin, aspirin and its raw ingredient salicylic acid and later rubber processing chemicals. In the 1920s, Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals such as sulfuric acid, queenys son Edgar Monsanto Queeny took over the company in 1928. In 1926 the company founded and incorporated a town called Monsanto in Illinois and it was formed to provide minimal regulation and low taxes for Monsanto plants at a time when local jurisdictions had most of the responsibility for environmental rules. It was renamed in honor of Leo Sauget, its first village president, in 1935, Monsanto bought the Swann Chemical Company in Anniston, Alabama, and thereby entered the business of producing PCBs. In 1936, Monsanto acquired Thomas & Hochwalt Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio, to acquire the expertise of Charles Allen Thomas, the acquisition became Monsantos Central Research Department. Thomas spent the rest of his career at Monsanto, serving as President and they urged Thomas to become co-director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos with Robert Oppenheimer, but Thomas was reluctant to leave Dayton and Monsanto. He joined the NDRC, and Monsantos Central Research Department began to conduct related research, to that end, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories, and assisted in the development of the first nuclear weapons. In 1946, Monsanto developed and marketed All laundry detergent, which sold to Lever Brothers in 1957. In 1947, its factory was destroyed in the Texas City Disaster
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Reinsurance Group of America
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Business lines include individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, health reinsurance, long-term care reinsurance, group reinsurance and financial solutions. RGA also sells bancassurance and retakaful and offers facultative and underwriting expertise, product development, risk management, e-underwriting solutions, as a global organization, RGA has received more than 6 million facultative cases since 1979. RGA currently ranks 271 on the 2016 Fortune 500 list and was named to Forbes Americas 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies 2014 list, RGA began operating in the United States in 1973 as General American Re, a reinsurance division created by General American Life Insurance Company. In 1992, General American chartered Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated as a company for its reinsurance operations. Later that year, RGA opened its first international office when it acquired National Re of Canada, on May 4,1993, RGA began being traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. By 1999, RGA had opened offices in Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. In 2000, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company acquired GenAmerica Corporation, which included General American and its subsidiaries, in 2008, RGA became a stand-alone company after it split off from MetLife, Inc. Between 2002 and 2014, RGA opened additional offices in South Korea, India, China, Poland, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, today RGA is one of the largest life reinsurance companies in the world
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Centene
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The main lines of Centene include Medicare, Medicaid, The Health Insurance Marketplace System, Tricare, as well as traditional commercial insurance. It is the second-largest publicly-traded corporation in the state of Missouri, founded as a single health plan in Wisconsin in 1984, Centene has established itself as a national leader in healthcare services. Chairman, President and CEO Michael F. Neidorff joined the company in 1996, over the past 33 years, Centene has grown to become a $40 billion member of the Fortune 500 trading on the New York Stock Exchange. July 2,2015, Centene announced it would acquire Health Net, at announcement, it was estimated Health Net shareholders would own 29% of the combined company. After its acquisition of Health Net, Centene now provides healthcare to over 11 million people, Centene is currently ranked #124 on the Fortune 500 & #4 on the Fortunes 100 Fastest Growing Companies. Part of the source of the lies in reports that that facility has a notably higher survival rate for such operations. Superior HealthPlan claims that it does not cover Texas Childrens Hospital, superior HealthPlan said it is confident the family will find capable in-network providers
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Peabody Energy
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Peabody Energy Corporation, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world. Its primary business consists of the mining, sale and distribution of coal, Peabody also markets, brokers and trades coal through offices in China, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, India, Singapore, and the United States. The coal produced by Peabody Energy fuels approximately 10% of the electricity generated in the United States, in 2014, Peabody Energy recorded sales of 249.8 million tons of coal. Peabody markets coal to electricity generating and industrial customers in more than 25 nations on six continents, as of December 31,2014, the company had approximately 7.5 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Peabody Energy maintains ownership of majority interests in 26 surface and underground mining operations located throughout the United States, in the United States, company-owned mines are located in Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois, and Indiana. Peabodys largest operation is the North Antelope Rochelle Mine located in Campbell County, Peabody spun off coal mining operations in West Virginia and Kentucky into Patriot Coal Corporation in October 2007. Despite this, Peabody Energy earned Energy Company of the Year, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 13,2016. The Peabody Energy company was founded as Peabody, Daniels & Company in 1883 by Francis Peabody, the son of a prominent Chicago lawyer, the company bought coal from established mines and sold it to homes and businesses in the Chicago area. In the late 1880s, Francis Peabody bought out his partners share of the business, in 1895, it began operations of its first mine in Williamson County, Illinois and later expanded its operations in Illinois. In 1913, the company won its first long-term contract to supply Chicago Edison Company, despite being ranked eighth among the countrys top coal producers in the mid-1950s, Peabody began to lose market share to companies operating cost-efficient surface mining operations. To address the situation, it entered into talks with Sinclair Coal Company. A merger between the two occurred in 1955, resulting in the transfer of Peabodys headquarters to St. Louis. The merged company retained the Peabody name, under the leadership of chairman Russell Kelce, the company expanded production and sales. In 1962, Peabody expanded into the Pacific with the opening of mining operations in Queensland, during this period Peabody also forged an equity partnership with the Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and the Australian construction company Thiess Holdings. In 1968, the company was purchased by the Kennecott Copper Corporation, however, the U. S. Federal Trade Commission challenged the purchase as an antitrust violation. In 1976, the FTC ordered Kennecott to divest itself of Peabody, the newly created Peabody Holding Company purchased the Peabody Coal business of Kennecott for $1.1 billion, and a consortium of companies controlled Peabody-Holding. In the 1980s, Peabody expanded its operations in the Eastern United States, the company sought to broaden its metallurgical coal portfolio through the purchase of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates seven West Virginia mines in 1987. Peabody also expanded westward, opening the North Antelope and Rochelle mines in the low sulfur Wyodak seam in the heart of Wyomings Powder River Basin in 1983 and 1984, the passage of the Clean Air Act amendments in 1990 prompted the closure of some Peabody mines
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Ameren
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It is now a holding company for several power companies and energy companies. The company is based in St. Louis, serving 2, Ameren Missouri is responsible for managing water levels on the lake according to federal regulations. The dam also created the Lake of the Ozarks with 1,400 miles of shoreline, in 1931, Union Electric Light and Power sought additional generating sources and the company began buying power from the Keokuk, IA dam,150 miles north of St. Louis. Union Electric later bought the dam, providing 134 megawatts of hydroelectricity carried over a distance than had ever been achieved before. By the 1950s Union Electric owned gas operations in and around Alton, Illinois, in 1952, Amerens second major constituent, the Central Illinois Public Service Company, became a major pooled energy power distributor with its future Ameren mate, Union Electric Company. The arrangement formed the Midwest Power Pool system, the CIPS Meredosia, Illinois Power Station became a key contributor to the pool, which also included the later Ameren subsidiary Illinois Power Company. In 1963 Union Electric completed construction of one of the largest pumped storage plants at that time, in 1984 Union Electric added nuclear energy to the mix, when the Callaway Nuclear Generating Station began providing 1,143 megawatts of power from Callaway County, Missouri. Both of those former utilities had traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange, under ticker symbol CIP and UEP, CIPSCO had assets of about US$210 million, but still carried nearly half of US$1 billion in long-term debt, which it had also accumulated by the 1980s. Following the merger, Union Electric began doing business as AmerenUE and it also served Iowa as well through the mid-1990s, and served adjoining parts of Illinois until 2010. The former CIPSCO Inc. utility, Central Illinois Public Service Company, became Amerens other operating company, in 2000, Ameren formed the holding company, AmerenEnergy Resources. It contained two further subsidiaries, AmerenEnergy Marketing, and AmerenEnergy Generating, in 2002, Ameren Corporation announced a voluntary retirement program, which was offered to approximately 1,000 of Amerens 7,400 current employees, expecting to realize significant long-term savings. In 2003, Ameren acquired Peoria-based CILCORP, Inc. and its subsidiary, Central Illinois Light Company. CILCORP had traded on the NYSE with ticker symbol CER prior to its acquisition by AES, CILCO had been another pioneer utility in the region, which had paid a dividend since 1921. By 1996, it had grown to over US$150 million in assets, following the 2003 Ameren acquisition, that utility then became the subsidiary AmerenCILCO. In 2004, Ameren acquired its third partner from the 1952 Midwest Power Pool system and that utility had traded publicly on the NYSE under the ticker symbol IPC through the 1980s, and paid dividends since 1947. As of the late 1980s, the generated electricity and natural gas, almost entirely from coal plants, with less than 1% fueled from oil. By then, with about $360 million in assets, it carried long-term debt of over US$2 billion, in 1991, Illinois Power became the subsidiary of holding company Illinova Corp. which traded on the NYSE with ticker symbol ILN. Illinova had grown to an S&P Midcap 400 stock by 1996, with over US$415 million in assets, in a merger completed February 1,2000, Illinova Corp. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynegy Inc. in which Chevron Corporation also took a 28% stake
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Graybar Electric
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Graybar is an American employee-owned corporation, based in Clayton, Missouri. It conducts a wholesale business for electrical, communications and data networking products. It is included on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations, founded in 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Elisha Gray and Enos Barton, it was the origin of the Western Electric Company. On December 11,1925, it was incorporated as Graybar Electric Company. During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, an entrepreneur named Enos Barton worked for Western Union in Rochester, during this period, Barton met George Shawk, the foreman of the companys Cleveland, Ohio shop. When that shop was closed down, Shawk bought some of the equipment and went into business for himself, making various kinds of electrical and other apparatus, while on a trip to Rochester, he and Barton, who was then 26, agreed to go into partnership. To raise the $400 her son needed for his share of the business venture, the new firm, located at 93 St. Clair Street in Cleveland, grew. In May 1869, Elisha Gray, an Oberlin College professor and inventor of telegraphic equipment, up until then, Gray had been one of the firms top customers. He had invented a needle annunciator for hotels and elevators, a telautograph, Gray and Barton joined forces with an investment of $2,500 each, with Gray as the senior partner. The success of the new company attracted the attention of General Anson Stager and he offered to enter the business as an equal partner with Gray and Barton, providing the companys headquarters was moved from Cleveland to Chicago, Illinois. In December 1869, the moved to 162 S. The great Great Chicago Fire in 1871 came within two blocks of its small plant, the destruction caused by the fire resulted in greater growth for Gray & Barton, as the company sold fire alarms and helped rebuild the Western Union infrastructure in the city. After several relocations, all in Chicago, the business was incorporated as the Western Electric Manufacturing Company in 1872 to meet the requirements of the telegraph supply business. The new company so closely allied with the elder Western that three of its five directors were Western Union executives, moreover, Stager was named president, although it was Barton as secretary/treasurer who actually handled day-to-day affairs. In 1876, he filed a caveat with the U. S, patent Office, announcing his intention to soon patent an invention that would transmit vocal sounds telegraphically. Gray dubbed his telephone the harmonic telegraph, only hours earlier, however, Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the same idea, which became known as the telephone. As it turned out, what Bell actually patented would have never worked, therefore it was Bells patent and not Gray’s that launched the telecommunications industry. Stager served as president of Western Electric until shortly before his death in 1885, Western Electric Company was the first company to join in a Japanese joint venture with foreign capital
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Edward Jones Investments
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The firm focuses solely on individual investors and small-business owners. Edward Jones is a subsidiary of The Jones Financial Companies, L. L. L. P, a limited liability limited partnership owned only by its employees and retired employees and is not publicly traded. Edward Jones financial advisors offer commission-based and fee-based financial products, offices are usually staffed by two associates, one Financial Advisor and one Branch Office Administrator. The one-broker-per-office model allows clients to choose their broker directly and deal with just that broker and this model also allows the firm to open offices in areas and towns where a large office staffed by many brokers would be unprofitable. This model is also the reason that Edward Jones currently has the largest number of branch offices among brokerage firms in the United States, the company has its corporate headquarters in the City of Des Peres in St. Louis County, Missouri. Adjacent to the headquarters is the Edward Jones South Campus, located at the intersection of Ballas Road. The Edward Jones North Campus is in an area southeast of the intersection of Interstate 270, Edward Jones has locations in the United States and Canada. The company had offices in the United Kingdom for 10 years, Designated the firm with Highest in Investor Satisfaction by J. D. Power and Associates in 2002,2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,2012, and 2013. In Canada also Designated the firm with Highest in Investor Satisfaction by J. D. Power, Edward Jones ranked No.1 in the annual SmartMoney magazine full-service brokerage survey. The firm received high marks in the four categories surveyed by the magazine, stock picking, customer satisfaction, trust, named one of the Best Companies to Work for in America by Fortune magazine in its annual listing. The firm took the No.5 spot overall in the ranking, as part of the settlement, Edward Jones paid a $75 million fine. On Aug.6 million and by misleading municipal issuers, Edward Jones was founded by Edward D. Jones in 1922. Edward Jones son Edward D. Ted Jones was responsible for the creation of the branch network which has spread across rural communities and suburbs throughout the US. The first single broker office was opened by Ted, and staffed by Zeke McIntyre, in Mexico, Ted opened another branch office in Pueblo, Colorado, with his brother-in-law Bill Lloyd as manager of the multi-broker office. When Edward D. Jones Sr. found the teletypewriter line bill, Ted Jones paid for it by opening one-broker offices on either side of the teletypewriter line stretching from St. Louis, Missouri, to Pueblo, Colorado. That is why some of the earliest Edward Jones offices were Dodge City, Hays, Great Bend, Edward Jones Investments had the naming rights for the Edward Jones Dome in Saint Louis, Missouri
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All-America City Award
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The All-America City Award is given by the National Civic League annually to ten communities in the United States. It recognizes those whose citizens work together to identify and tackle community-wide challenges, winners can be neighborhoods, towns, villages, cities, counties, or regions. The All-America Award is the oldest community recognition program in the nation, since the programs inception in 1949, more than 600 communities have been named All-America Cities. Each year, interested communities submit a comprehensive package based on published criteria that are evaluated in the selection process. Deserving communities are named as finalists, and the years ten award winners are named from that pool of applicants, communities winning this award more than two times are listed below. These communities make up the All-America City Hall of Fame, the following cities have received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League
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