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Place Name
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Adair County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Greenfield
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Population
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8,409 (1990)
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Location
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Iowa, United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°19'N
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Longitude
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94°28'W
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Adair
, county (
570 sq mi/1,476 sq km; 1990 pop.
8,409), SW Iowa;  Greenfield; 41°19'N 94°28'W. Drained by
Middle, North, and Thompson rivers, and by Middle and East branches of
the Nodaway. Rolling agr. area (corn; cattle, hogs, poultry); mfg. at
Greenfield; bituminous-coal deposits. Site of first train robbery in
the West, in NW corner of co. Henry Wallace Monument near Orient in S.
Formed 1851.
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