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    West Des Moines is a city in Iowa, United States. Most of the city is in Polk County, some of it is in Dallas County, and small portions extend into Warren...
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    The Des Moines metropolitan area, officially known as the Des MoinesWest Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is located at the confluence...
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    Des Moines (/dəˈmɔɪn/ də-MOYN) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County with parts extending...
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  • Valley High School (VHS) is a public high school located in West Des Moines, Iowa. VHS is a three-year comprehensive high school with approximately 2...
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  • Des Moines University (DMU) is a private medical school in West Des Moines, Iowa. Founded in 1898, Des Moines University is the second oldest osteopathic...
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    Des Moines County is located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,910. The county seat and largest city is Burlington...
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  • Des Moines Menace is an American soccer team based in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1994, the team plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier...
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    Des Moines, Iowa Douds, Iowa Eddyville, Iowa Eldon, Iowa Emmetsburg, Iowa (West Fork) Estherville, Iowa (West Fork) Farmington, Iowa Fort Dodge, Iowa...
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    civilian-military commercial service airport 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. The airport's 2,600 acre campus includes two runways, 46 buildings...
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  • Dowling Catholic High School (category West Des Moines, Iowa)
    High School is a Catholic secondary school in West Des Moines, Iowa, within the Diocese of Des Moines. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had...
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    Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) is a public community college in central Iowa. The college served 35,488 credit students and 29,021 noncredit...
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    Interstate 235 (I-235) in Iowa is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that runs just north of downtown Des Moines through the heart of the Des Moines metropolitan area...
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  • The bypass around Des Moines, Iowa, is a 25-mile-long (40 km) freeway around the south and east of the Des Moines metropolitan area. The route is made...
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    located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was built by abolitionist James C. Jordan and was a station on the Underground Railroad in Iowa. It has...
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    Peter Jok (category People from West Des Moines, Iowa)
    Kenya to escape the war. They joined many other Sudanese refugees in Des Moines, Iowa, which was where they moved to in December 2003. Jok arrived in the...
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  • Des Moines United FC is an American soccer club in Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines United was founded as a futsal club in 2017 and joined UPSL in 2021. After...
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    Liang Chow (category People from West Des Moines, Iowa)
    owner, and head coach of Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, Iowa. He is notable for being the coach of 2008 Olympic balance beam...
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    secondary school located on the west side of Des Moines, Iowa. It is one of five secondary schools in the Des Moines Independent Community School District...
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    Jordan Creek Town Center (category West Des Moines, Iowa)
    Center is a shopping mall in the city of West Des Moines, Iowa. It is the largest shopping complex in the state of Iowa with a total gross leasable area of...
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    Downtown Des Moines is the central business district of Des Moines, Iowa and the Greater Des Moines Metropolitan Area. Downtown Des Moines is defined...
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  • Disappearance of Johnny Gosch (category People from Des Moines, Iowa)
    (November 12, 1969 – disappeared September 5, 1982) was a paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa, who disappeared between 6 and 7 a.m. on September 5, 1982. He is...
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    The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in Des Moines, Iowa in August. It began in 1854 and has been held on the Iowa State Fairgrounds since...
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    The county seat is Des Moines, which is also the capital city of Iowa. Polk County is included in the Des MoinesWest Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical...
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    Caitlin Clark (category Basketball players from Des Moines, Iowa)
    Clark attended Dowling Catholic High School in her hometown of West Des Moines, Iowa, where she was named a McDonald's All-American and rated the fourth-best...
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    Valley West Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall in West Des Moines, Iowa. The mall's only anchor store is JCPenney. There are two vacant anchor...
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  • Thumbnail for Flag of Des Moines, Iowa
    The flag of Des Moines, Iowa, was designed by Walter T. Proctor. Set on a blue background is a red vertical stripe along the hoist with the right side...
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    Guthrie County is one of the six counties that make up the Des MoinesWest Des Moines, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the U.S. Census...
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    Cindy Axne (category People from West Des Moines, Iowa)
    from Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa and a Master of Business Administration...
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  • Thumbnail for Des Moines Golf and Country Club
    Des Moines Golf and Country Club is a private country club in West Des Moines, Iowa, located few minutes west of Des Moines. Its golf courses have consistently...
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  • Chow's, is an American women's artistic gymnastics academy based in West Des Moines, Iowa. The academy was founded by Chinese former artistic gymnast Liang...
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