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The city lies on the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It has a total area of 1.80 square miles, and an average elevation of 269 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120225081742/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
The city lies on the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It has a total area of 1.80 square miles, and an average elevation of 269 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120225081742/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
==Demographics==
At the 2010 census, Gideon had a total of 1,093 inhabitants, grouped into 418 households, with a population density of 610.6 people per square mile. This figure represented a slight decrease from the 2000 census, when Gideon had a population of 1,113. 99.36% of the inhabitants were White, 0.09% were African-American, and 0.55% were from two or more races. Hispanics of any race were 0.27% of the population.
The median age in Gideon was 39.1 years, with 25.6% of inhabitants under the age of 18, 7.6% between 18 and 24 years old, 23.1% between 25 and 44, 24.2% between 45 and 64, and 19.4% 65 years old or older. The sex ratio was 47.8% male, 52.2% female.<ref>https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF</ref>
According to the 2017 American Community Survey, the median household income in Gideon was $32,446, and the median family income was $34,167. The unemployment rate was 8.7%. The per capita income was $14,531. About 27.4% of the population lived below the poverty line, including 32.6% of people under the age of 18 and 19.2% of people 65 years old or older.<ref>https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF</ref>
==Education==
Gideon's first school was organized in 1903. Today it and the surrounding area, including the nearby community of [[Tallapoosa, Missouri|Tallapoosa]], are served by the Gideon School District #37, a K-12 public institution with an enrollment of about 260 students. Its mascot is the Bulldogs, and the school colors are black, gold, and white. The school touts its commitment to maintaining in its students "that heritage of democracy that has been left to them by their ancestors."<ref>http://gideon.k12.mo.us/belief/philoso.htm</ref>
==Notable Persons==
Gideon is the hometown of Mark Littell, a professional [[baseball]] player who pitched for the Kansas City Royals and the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in the 1970s and 1980s. He later wrote a memoir of his childhood and career, ''On the Eighth Day, God Made Baseball''.
The city was also home to Jack Campbell (1927-2007), a singer and songwriter whose band, "Jack Campbell and the Ambassadors," recorded a number of [[gospel]] hits.
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