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Place Name
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Clay County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Spencer
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Population
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17,585 (1990)
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Location
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Palo Alto County, Iowa (IA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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43°05'N
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Longitude
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95°09'W
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Clay
, county (
572 sq mi/1,481 sq km; 1990 pop.
17,585), NW Iowa;  Spencer; 43°05'N 95°09'W. Rolling prairie
agr. area (hogs, cattle, sheep, poultry; corn, oats, soybeans) drained
by Little Sioux and Ocheyedan rivers. Mfg. at Spencer. NE part of Clay
in Iowa lakes district (glacial origins) which includes Elk L., Round
L., Trumbull L., Lost Island L. (on boundary of Palo Alto co.), Dan
Greene Slough (lake). Flooding in area in 1993. Formed 1851.
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