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Place Name
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Webster County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Fort Dodge
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Population
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40,342 (1990)
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Location
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Iowa, United States, North America
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Latitude
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42°25'N
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Longitude
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94°10'W
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Webster
, county (
718 sq mi/1,860 sq km; 1990 pop.
40,342), central Iowa;  Fort Dodge; 42°25'N 94°10'W. Prairie
agr. area (cattle, hogs, poultry; corn, soybeans, hay) drained by Des
Moines R. Contains valuable gypsum bed (mined at Fort Dodge); also coal
deposits, clay, sand and gravel. Dolliver Memorial and Brushy Creek
state parks and Woodman Hollow State Preserve are all in SE
¼ of co. The co. experienced widespread flooding in
1993. Formed 1851.
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