Dent County
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county in Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- Founded
- February 10, 1851
- Named after
- Lewis Dent, a pioneer settler
- Seat
- Salem
- Largest city
- Salem
- Total
- 755 sq mi (1,960 km )
- Land
- 753 sq mi (1,950 km )
- Water
- 1.7 sq mi (4.4 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 14,584
- Density
- 19.2/sq mi (7.39/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- www .salemmo .com /dent /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Missouri
- Contains
- Salem
- Capital
- Salem
- Population
- 14421
- Area
- 1954
- Elevation
- 379
- Shares border with
- Reynolds County
- Official website
- www.salemmo.com/dent
- Image
- Dent County Missouri Courthouse-20150101-083-pano.jpg
- Households
- 6355
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- Commons category
- Dent County, Missouri
- topic's main category
- Category:Dent County, Missouri
- inception
- 1851-02-10
- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Dent County
- per capita income
- 23254
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Encyclopedic overview
Dent County is a county in Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,421. The largest city and county seat is Salem. The county was officially organized on February 10, 1851, and is named after state representative Lewis Dent, a pioneer settler who arrived in Missouri from Virginia in 1835.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dent County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.