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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: People from Warren County, Iowa, Indianola, Iowa, Lacona, Iowa, Cumming, Iowa, St. Marys, Iowa, West Des Moines, Iowa, Norwalk, Iowa, Martensdale, Iowa, Ackworth, Iowa, New Virginia, Iowa, Spring Hill, Iowa, Sandyville, Iowa, Carlisle, Iowa, Hartford, Iowa, Bevington, Iowa, Milo, Iowa, Emma Verona Johnston, George Windle Read, Adam Walsh, James C. Hickman, Steve Spray, National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, Iowa, Middle River, Cassius C. Dowell, Lake Ahquabi State Park, Staci Appel, North River, Warren County Court House, Junior D. Edwards, Liberty Center, Iowa, Prole, Iowa, Marcos Ramirez, Ilo Wallace, Great Western Trail, Chris Street, William S. Beardsley, Summerset Trail, Iowa Crush, Mark Davitt, Octagon Barn, Otter Township, Greenfield Township, Warren County, Iowa, Kent Sorenson, Greenwood Roadway, Dale Maffitt Reservoir, U.S. Ballooning Hall of Fame, Buxton Park Arboretum. Excerpt: West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents and the United States Census Bureau estimated that 53,889 residents lived there in 2008. West Des Moines is the second-largest city in the Des Moines metropolitan area and the ninth-largest city in Iowa. It ranked 94th in Money magazine's list of the "100 Best Places to Live and Launch" in 2008. It is one of Iowa's largest and wealthiest cities and one of Des Moines's richest suburbs. The West Des Moines area used to be home to the Sac and Fox tribes. Near the stroke of midnight on 11 October 1845 a gunshot was fired by a cattle farmer, James Cunningham Jordan (born 1813; died 1893) and the tribes left. His residence, the Jordan House, has been restored and is now home to the West Des Moines Hist...
