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	East North Central States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is one of the two divisions within the larger region the United States Census Bureau (and for that matter, the U.S. population at large) calls the Midwest; the other such division is the West North Central States.
		The East North Central division is strongly identified with the Rust Belt, although the latter also encompasses upstate New York and western Pennsylvania, along with the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
		Lawrence Seaway or a combination of the New York State Barge Canal and the Hudson River (indeed, Chicago, the division's largest city, is by far the largest fresh-water port in the United States, and one of the largest such ports in the entire world).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_North_Central_States (206 words)

	West North Central States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The West North Central States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau.
		Seven states comprise the division: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, and it makes up the western half of the United States Census Bureau's larger region of the Midwest, the eastern half of which consists of the East North Central States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
		Beginning in the early 1990s, the West North Central division has consistently had the lowest unemployment rate in the United States (especially in its many college towns), and has also been noted for its plentiful supply of affordable housing.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/West_North_Central_States (219 words)

	MSN Encarta - North Dakota
		North Dakota’s major institutions of higher education are the state-supported University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, and North Dakota State University in Fargo.
		Two well-known museums are the museum of the State Historical Society at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck, and the University of North Dakota Zoology Museum, in Grand Forks.
		North Dakota’s first radio station, WDAY, in Fargo, went on the air in 1922, within two years of the first radio broadcast in the United States.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574738_5/North_Dakota.html (586 words)

	north dakota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of the West North Central states of the U.S., bounded on the N by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, on the E by Minnesota, on the S by South Dakota, and on the W by Montana.
		The N central part of the state is drained by the Souris R., and the SE part by the James R., a tributary of the Missouri R. Numerous small natural lakes are in the glaciated part of the state; the largest of these is Devils Lake.
		North Dakota is one of the nation's least urbanized states; in 1990 about 53% of all state residents lived in areas defined as urban and the rest lived in rural areas.
	equineestates.com /library/United_States/north_dakota.htm (2868 words)

	MSN Encarta - Nebraska
		Nebraska is bounded by South Dakota on the north, Kansas on the south, the Missouri River and the states of Iowa and Missouri on the east, and Wyoming and Colorado on the west.
		With the exception of the Panhandle to the west, the state is rectangular.
		The state’s principal river, the Platte, is formed by the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers, both of which rise in the Rocky Mountains.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561370/Nebraska.html (1368 words)

	Lenin: 1915/newdev: 7. Machinery and Hired Labour in Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The latter lead the rest and, in particular, are far ahead of the West North Central states, America’s most agricultural area and her granary, which superficial observers still frequently regard as a model area of capitalism and of the use of machinery.
		The West North Central division, with the largest farm acreages (an average of 148 acres in 1910, counting improved land only) and with the most rapid and steady growth of farm acreages since 1850, is commonly regarded as the “model” capitalist region of American agriculture.
		While the West North Central states, which comprise 34.3% of the total improved acreage in the U.S.A., are the most typical division of “extensive” capitalist agriculture, the Mountain states offer an example of similar extensive farming in conditions of the most rapid colonization.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1915/newdev/02.htm (1217 words)

	MSN Encarta - North Dakota
		Ski trails and tows are being opened at various locations in the state, and the larger cities hold winter sports carnivals.
		The aspen, bur oak, green ash, and balsam poplar that grow in Homen and Turtle Mountain state forests are ideal habitat for moose and deer, as well as a variety of smaller creatures.
		Tetrault Woods State Forest is a mixture of woods and wetlands, while Sheyenne State Forest is dominated by hardwoods such as elm, green ash, and oak.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574738_6/North_Dakota.html (582 words)

	MSN Encarta - Nebraska
		In the northeast and in the central Platte Valley, farmers grow corn and raise feeder cattle and hogs.
		The Platte Valley, much of the south central and southwestern parts of the state, and the eastern fringe of the Sand Hills are the leading areas under irrigation.
		The greatest share of mining activities in the state is focused on crushed stone, sand and gravel, and portland cement.
	beta.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561370_4/Nebraska.html (704 words)

	Crime and Violence in Rural Communities
		The latter half of the 19th century witnessed the rapid settlement of the continental United States west of the Mississippi.
		Traditional rural areas, principally in the Southern and Western states, and rural areas dominated by mining and timbering historically have higher rates of violence, which are associated with the use of violence as an accepted means of resolving conflict (Nisbett, 1993).
		A study by Donnermeyer and Kreps (1986) of one rural county in north central Ohio noted that 36 percent of the respondents were aware of incidents of vandalism occurring within the past year to people they knew.
	www.ncrel.org /sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/v1donner.htm (10349 words)

	West North Central Appliance Report 2001
		The 7 million households in the West North Central States consumed 0.89 quadrillion Btu of energy, about 9 percent of nationwide household energy consumption of 10.2 quadrillion Btu in 1997 (the most recent year for which data are available).
		Per-household consumption of energy in the West North Central States was, on average, 23 percent higher in the those States than in the United States as a whole.
		Similarly, in the West North Central States, 33 percent of households had room units in 1980 and 27 percent had them in 2001, while the shares for central air-conditioning rose from 41 percent to 65 percent.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/reps/appli/w_n_c.html (902 words)

	Kansas
		In addition, the High Plains of the west include areas of canyon country and sand dunes reminiscent of New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest, while the rolling grasslands of the Flint and Smoky hills, in central Kansas, resemble the rangelands of the West.
		The state is named for the Kansas River, which, in turn, was named for the Kansa people, who once inhabited northeastern Kansas.
		Although the center subsequently shifted to North Dakota, Kansas is still recognized as the site of the geographical center of the coterminous United States, that is, of all the states except Alaska and Hawaii.
	www.ovayonda.us /lodging/state/us-ks.html (543 words)

	MSN Encarta - Nebraska
		The last killing frost is usually in late April or early May, and the first killing frost generally occurs in late September or early October.
		The high degree of productivity of the land is a major reason why nearly 95 percent of the land area of the state is in agricultural use.
		The soils of Nebraska can be divided into five major groups: the prairie soils in the southeast, chernozem in the central and northeastern areas, chestnut in the west, the Sand Hills soils in north central Nebraska, and rich alluvial soils along the floodplains of the major rivers.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561370_2/Nebraska.html (496 words)

	The Nebraska Real Estate License Professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Most of the population is concentrated in the eastern one-quarter of the state and in a belt along the Platte and North Platte rivers.
		Much of the state’s population is descended from European immigrants who came to Nebraska in the late 19th century.
		The present school system is supervised by the state Department of Education, which consists of an elected eight-member board and a commissioner appointed by the board.
	www.licenseprofessor.com /Nebraska_Real_Estate_Exam/Nebraska_people.asp (2390 words)

	Explaining Employment Growth in 20 Western States: The Role Urban Areas Play
		States are matched with the largest MSA that lists their state first.
		The Figure is an estimate of the geographic concentration of the state’s population.
		In conclusion, the concentration of a state’s population in a single MSA is significantly associated with nonagricultural employment growth in 1997.
	wydoe.state.wy.us /lmi/1198/1198a2.htm (1387 words)

	Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Texas: Regions: West Central Texas
		The Abilene Metropolitan Area is the West Central Texas Region and includes Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Kent, Knox, Mitchell, Nolan, Runnels, Scurry, Shackelford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor, and Throckmorton counties.
		West Central Texas Council of Governments · Profile of the COG includes a listing of the members of the Board of Directors and staff, as well as member cities, counties, and school districts.
		West Central Texas Water District · cached · Serves Jones, Taylor, Shackelford, and Stephens counties.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=20161 (226 words)

	North, the -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This struggle against slavery and secession obscured the reality that the North was actually four separate and not so similar areas: New England, the Middle Atlantic states, the Old Northwest (East North Central States in...
		Lying to the north of Cuba and Hispaniola, the archipelago comprises nearly 700 islands and cays, only about 30 of which are inhabited,...
		During this period, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union remained tenuous, and both prepared for the possibility of armed conflict by building large stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9056166 (909 words)

	CDC - Predicting the Risk of Lyme Disease: Habitat Suitability for Ixodes scapularis in the North Central United States
		Lyme disease, the most common vectorborne disease of humans in the United States, is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the fllegged tick Ixodes scapularis (1).
		Patchy areas of higher probability (60%-100%) are found in the central and northern portion (Juneau, Adams, Waushara, and Marquette counties.) and along the border with Minnesota (Vernon and Crawford counties).
		The extensive area of suitable habitat in the western portion of the state can explain the rapid expansion of the tick from the original northwestern focus to the southwestern portion of the state (2-5).
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol8no3/01-0166.htm (6090 words)

	AAOS On-Line Service December 1998 Bulletin West south central, pacific states lead in recruiting orthopaedists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Practices in the west south central states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma) and the pacific states (Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii, Alaska) are the most likely to be recruiting.
		In the west south central states, 62 percent of the responding practices said they were recruiting an additional orthopaedic surgeon while 59 percent of those practices in the pacific states said they are recruiting.
		Practices in New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island), the west north central states (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas), and the mountain states (Montana, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico) were most likely to be seeking a specialist.
	www.aaos.org /wordhtml/bulletin/dec98/fline24.htm (323 words)

	Agriculture employment most widespread by far in West North Central States, MLR: The Editor's Desk
		In 1997, the States in the West North Central area had the highest proportion of employed persons working in farming, forestry, and fishing occupations.
		In the Pacific area, 3.5 percent had jobs in farming, forestry, and fishing, while in the Mountain area and West South Central areas, the percentages were 3.4 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively.
		West North Central States include Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
	www.bls.gov /opub/ted/1999/Aug/wk2/art04.htm (261 words)

	Roosevelt, Theodore -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Established as a national memorial park in 1947, it underwent subsequent boundary changes and was redesignated a national park in 1978.
		As the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, she had the distinction of being first lady longer than any other presidential wife—slightly more than 12 years (1933–45)—and her defense of the rights of minorities, youth,...
		Her determination to separate the presidential offices from the family's living space led to the construction of the mansion's West Wing, among other improvements.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9083896&ref=news1104fact (856 words)

	Information for West North Central Region
		It is located west of Wisconsin and Illinois and borders Canada on the north.
		The inland states of Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa are mostly plains with with little level land in some areas and mostly level land in other areas.
		Iron ore, sand, gravel, and granite are mined in the state, as well as limestone, clay, and peat.
	192.107.108.56 /portfolios/s/spezzacatena_l/final/stu4awnc.html (600 words)

	USATODAY.com - Friday's best U.S. weather is in the West while South gets wet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Most of the West is staying stay dry on Friday, except for a few thunderstorms scattered around the in the northern Rockies and maybe storms by late in the day in the Southwest.
		The central USA and the South, however, are in for a wet day and probably on and off rain for the weekend.
		Some of the Southeastern rain is being fed by an area of disturbed weather over the western Caribbean Sea, which the National Hurricane Center says is "becoming better organized." This system is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday and "further development is possible," the Hurricane Center says.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/news/2003-08-28-Friday-weather_x.htm (368 words)

	Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas Score Biggest Gains
		America’s West North Central region has scored the biggest gains in consumer confidence over the last year, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board.
		These West North Central states have been dealing with a double whammy for a long time.
		West North Central:Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas
	www.conference-board.org /utilities/pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=2389 (484 words)

	AgricultureLaw.com News - February 27, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For the east north central states - Thomas E. Hertzfeld I, Waterville, OH, member; Ruth A. Hendrix, Seymour, IN, member; Brian S. Hayward, Warsaw, IN, alternate.
		Newly appointed alternates, by region, are: East north central states - Kurt F. Lausecker, West Mansfield, OH, alternate.
		West north central states - Loren E. Asche, Lake Mills, WI, alternate.
	www.agriculturelaw.com /headlines/feb03/feb27c.htm (311 words)

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		Of this amount, 95% was grown in the twelve states of the North Central Region.
		Row cultivation for weeds in popcorn is less common in the eastern region of the Corn Belt (10-25% of fields), but may be practiced on up the 75% of the acreage in western part of the region.
		Approximately 60 percent of popcorn fields are treated with a soil applied granular insecticide at planting whereas 100 percent of the "non-organic" popcorn fields are treated with a herbicide.
	pestdata.ncsu.edu /cropprofiles/docs/us-ncr-popcorn.html (15954 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Libraries: History: Business and Industrial History: US Economic Census
		Statistics of the United States of America, as collected and returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts, under the thirteenth section of the act for taking the sixth census, corrected at the Department of State, June 1, 1840; v.
		Compendium of the enumeration of the inhabitants and statistics of the United States, as obtained at the Department of State, from the returns of the sixth census.
		The vital statistics of the United States, embracing the tables of deaths, births, sex, and age, to which are added the statistics of the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane, and the idiotic; v.
	www.library.cmu.edu /Research/Humanities/History/ecocensus.html (3062 words)

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