Nodaway County, Missouri

Nodaway County is a county in State. The population of the county is 23,370.
Nodaway County 	Missouri
Founded 	February 14, 1845
Named for 	Nodaway River
County seat 	Maryville
Population 	23,370
Habitat 	Farmland
Cong. District 	6th
County Guildmaster	Evelyn Campbell
Time Zone 	Central (UTC -6/-5)
== Major roads ==
US Route 71
US Route 71 Business
US Route 136
Missouri Route 46
Missouri Route 113
Missouri Route 148
Missouri Route 246
== Geography ==
=== Adjacent counties ===
Gentry County and Worth County (east)
Taylor County, Iowa (northeast)
Page County, Iowa (northwest)
Andrew County (south)
Holt County (southwest)
Atchison County (west)
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the county is:
93.83% White (21,928)
3.60% Other (842)
2.57% Black or African American (600)
17.6% (4,113) of Nodaway County residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
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== Pokemon ==
Pokemon 	Location	Rate
Charmander 	Farmland	1-25%
Charmeleon 	Farmland	1-10%
Rattata 	Farmland	1-35%
Raticate 	Farmland	1-20%
Ekans 	Farmland	1-25%
Arbok 	Farmland	1-12%
Pikachu 	Farmland	1-75%
Raichu 	Farmland	1-57%
Sandshrew 	Farmland	1-21%
Sandslash 	Farmland	1-11%
NidoranF/NidoranM	Farmland	1-17%
Nidorina/Nidorino	Farmland	1-7%
Vulpix 	Farmland	1-10%
Ponyta 	Farmland	1-50%
Rapidash 	Farmland	1-30%
Electabuzz 	Farmland	1-55%
Tauros 	Farmland	1-15%
Eevee 	Farmland	1-15%
Vaporeon 	Farmland	1-5%
Jolteon 	Farmland	1-15%
Flareon 	Farmland	1-10%
Cyndaquil 	Farmland	1-35%
Quilava 	Farmland	1-20%
Typhlosion 	Farmland	1-3%
Pichu 	Farmland	1-66%
Mareep 	Farmland	1-75%
Flaaffy 	Farmland	1-65%
Ampharos 	Farmland	1-52%
Espeon 	Farmland	1-5%
Umbreon 	Farmland	1-5%
Elekid 	Farmland	1-77%
Electrike 	Farmland	1-75%
Manectric 	Farmland	1-60%
Plusle/Minun 	Farmland	1-80%
Zangoose 	Farmland	1-25%
Seviper 	Farmland	1-10%
Chimchar 	Farmland	1-30%
Monferno 	Farmland	1-15%
Infernape 	Farmland	1-3%
Shinx 	Farmland	1-80%
Luxio 	Farmland	1-65%
Luxray 	Farmland	1-47%
Pachirisu 	Farmland	1-75%
Leafeon 	Farmland	1-5%
Glaceon 	Farmland	1-5%
Tepig 	Farmland	1-30%
Pignite 	Farmland	1-15%
Emboar 	Farmland	1%
Emolga 	Farmland	1-75%
Skiddo 	Farmland	1-45%
Gogoat 	Farmland	1-25%
Helioptile 	Farmland	1-75%
Heliolisk 	Farmland	1-59%
Sylveon 	Farmland	1-5%
Dedenne 	Farmland	1-70%
Togedemaru 	Farmland	1-76%
== Communities ==
=== Cities ===
Barnard - 221
Burlington Junction - 537
Clearmont - 170
Elmo - 168
Hopkins - 532
Maryville - 11,972
Parnell - 191
Skidmore - 284
=== Villages ===
Arkoe - 68
Conception Junction - 198
Graham - 171
Guilford - 85
Pickering - 160
Ravenwood - 440
=== CDPs ===
Clyde - 82
Conception - 210
=== Unincorporated communities ===
Allison
Bedison
Bell Grove
Dawsonville
Gaynor
Orrsburg
Possum Walk
Quitman
Roseberry
Whitecloud
Wilcox
=== Ghost towns ===
Xenia
== Climate ==
Stats 	Amount
Average yearly rainfall 	37 inches
Average yearly snowfall 	18 inches
Average yearly sunny days	216
Severe storm risk 	10 (Very High)
Tornado risk 	8 (High)
Blizzard risk 	6 (Moderate)
== Fun facts ==
* Politically, Nodaway used to be a swing county, however, these days, it has turned powerfully Republican like most of Missouri.
* Skidmore has a bit of a history with notable crimes. On July 10, 1981, Ken McElroy was shot to death with at least two different guns, while sitting in his truck in front of the pool hall in town. Though dozens of people saw the event, all denied seeing anything that would help identify the shooters. McElroy had a reputation as the "town bully," and he had fended off over 20 charges for acts of theft, rape, and other violence (often by means of witness intimidation). In the months before his death, he was appealing a light sentence for shooting a 70-year-old grocer in the neck. Town residents had been upset over the inability of the courts to deal with him. Author Harry N. MacLean recounted the incident and its background in a bestselling and award-winning book, In Broad Daylight. In 1991 the incident was portrayed in a made-for-TV movie starring Brian Dennehy and Cloris Leachman (although filmed in Texas). The Ken McElroy shooting was also the focus of the A&E Network program City Confidential, season 2, episode 22 entitled, "Skidmore: Frontier Justice".
** On the afternoon of April 11, 2001, 20 year-old Skidmore resident Branson Perry disappeared after exiting his father's home, to return a pair of jumper cables to a shed in its yard. No one has been charged with a crime in relation to the disappearance. One suspect, Fulton resident Jack Wayne Rogers, now in prison for unrelated crimes, had initially bragged of murdering Branson, but later denied knowing him.
** On December 16, 2004, Skidmore was once again the focus of national attention when Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a relative of Branson Perry, was murdered and had her unborn baby cut from her womb. The baby, Victoria Jo Stinnett, was found alive two days later in Topeka, Kansas. The killer, Lisa Montgomery, received a federal death sentence.
* Skidmore had a yearly "Punkin' Show" until 2004.
* The origin of the name "Arkoe" is obscure.
* On September 18, 1880, first settler Dr. Talbott was shot and killed at his home in Arkoe. His wife, Belle, and his sons Charles Edward and Albert Perry, were initially suspected and arrested for his murder. Eventually, Belle was released and the sons were tried for their father's murder. Both were convicted and sentenced to hang. They were executed in the Beal Pasture (today Beal Park), on the east side of Maryville, on July 22, 1881. News accounts estimated the number of people present at the hanging at over 10,000. The Talbott brothers' hanging is said to have been the first "legal" hanging in Nodaway County. The Talbott brothers are buried in a private family cemetery a half mile west of Arkoe. The tombstone marking their burial site reads, "We died inocent," with the word "innocent" misspelled on the headstone. Also carved into the stone are two hands clasped together as in a handshake.
* Parnell used to be a speedtrap community.
* Clyde is home to the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration which houses 550 documented saint relics; one of the largest collections in the United States.
* The Nodaway County Electric Reservation is located near Burlington Junction.
* There is an annual celebration known as The Barnard Picnic, which usually takes place in July or August at the fairgrounds on the East side of Barnard.
* Hopkins was the final home of jockey Clive Dixon and his wife Betty June, who trained and owned the National Appaloosa Show Champion, Two-Eyed Sioux. 
* Each year the town celebrates the Hopkins Picnic the second weekend in July. This has been a yearly celebration since 1888.
* Nodaway is the largest in area of the counties added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase, and the fourth-largest county by area in Missouri.
* The 1881 Hopkins tornado is one of the first recorded F5 tornadoes.
* Early life in the county was chronicled by writer Homer Croy, a Nodaway County native, in many books, articles, films and Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s.
* The origin of the name "Nodaway" has been attributed to a Pottawatomie name for "placid," a Dakota Sioux name for "crossed without canoe," and various tribes names for "snake."
* U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas studied to become a priest at Conception Seminary College, before giving it up for law.
* The county has a rich agricultural history. It is the home of trainers Ben Jones and Jimmy Jones, whose horses won six Kentucky Derby races and two Triple Crowns.
* The grounds of Northwest Missouri State University contain the official Missouri State Arboretum and were a re-creation of the landscape of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. ESPN has carried the university's participation in five national championship football games, three of which they won.
* Nodaway County was on the frontier in its earliest days and has a long history of violence.
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