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Dent County, Missouri (view source)
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In recent years, Dent County attracted national attention on two occasions: first, in 2012-13, concerning accusations of abuse of a dog impounded by the city of Salem;<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130614040847/http://www.thesalemnewsonline.com/news/local_news/article_820cbebe-bcad-11e2-b5da-001a4bcf6878.html</ref> and again in July 2015, when the county commissioners voted unanimously to lower all flags to half staff on the 26th of every month for a year, to protest the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]'s imposing of gay marriage on the country, though they later reversed this decision.<ref>https://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/missouri-county-to-fly-flags-at-half-mast-to-mourn-supreme-courts-despicable-marriage-ruling/</ref>
In recent years, Dent County attracted national attention on two occasions: first, in 2012-13, concerning accusations of abuse of a dog impounded by the city of Salem;<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130614040847/http://www.thesalemnewsonline.com/news/local_news/article_820cbebe-bcad-11e2-b5da-001a4bcf6878.html</ref> and again in July 2015, when the county commissioners voted unanimously to lower all flags to half staff on the 26th of every month for a year, to protest the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]'s imposing of gay marriage on the country, though they later reversed this decision.<ref>https://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/missouri-county-to-fly-flags-at-half-mast-to-mourn-supreme-courts-despicable-marriage-ruling/</ref>
==Geography==
Dent County lies in the Ozarks Plateau of south-central Missouri, immediately west of the St. Francois Mountains and the so-called "Lead Belt." It is generally rectangular in shape, though with some irregularities on its western and especially its eastern ends. It is bordered on the east by [[Iron County, Missouri|Iron County]], on the southeast by [[Reynolds County, Missouri|Reynolds County]], on the south by [[Shannon County, Missouri|Shannon County]], on the southwest by Texas County, on the northwest by Phelps County, and on the north and northeast by Crawford County.
The county has a total area of 754.51 square miles, including 752.79 of land and 1.72 of water.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131021170230/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_29.txt</ref> Except for some more rugged regions in the east and southeast, most of the county is relatively level, belonging to a broad subsection of the Ozarks known as the "Salem Plateau." It lies along the boundary separating the watersheds of the [[Missouri River]] to the north and the [[Arkansas River]] to the south.<ref>''History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps, and Dent counties, Missouri'' (1889), p. 564-65.</ref> The highest point in the county is an unnamed peak in the east near the border with Reynolds County, at 1,461 feet above sea level, while the lowest point, about 850 feet, is along the Current River at the border with Shannon County in the south.<ref>https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=22232</ref>
The chief waterways in the county, the Current and Meramec Rivers, both have their sources within its boundaries. The Current rises from Montauk Springs in the southwest and from there flows generally southeast into [[Arkansas]]; the Meramec originates in the east near the Reynolds County line and from there flows north and then east into the [[Mississippi River]] south of [[St. Louis]].
The four major highways in the county all converge near its center at Salem. Missouri State Highway 19 crosses the county from north to south, with Highway 68 joining it north of Salem (its southern terminus) then diverging to go northwest into Phelps County; State Highway 32 runs through the county from west to east, while Highway 72 joins it west of Salem before diverging southeast toward Bunker.
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