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The most important event in the town's modern history came with the state's construction of the South Central Correctional Center, a 1,600-bed prison that opened in June 2000.<ref>http://correctionalnews.com/2005/12/09/south-central-correctional-center/</ref> This led to a doubling of Licking's population, further increased by the arrival of an [[Amish]] community from [[Indiana]] in 2009, and since then it has been the largest city in Texas County.
The most important event in the town's modern history came with the state's construction of the South Central Correctional Center, a 1,600-bed prison that opened in June 2000.<ref>http://correctionalnews.com/2005/12/09/south-central-correctional-center/</ref> This led to a doubling of Licking's population, further increased by the arrival of an [[Amish]] community from [[Indiana]] in 2009, and since then it has been the largest city in Texas County.
==Geography==
Licking is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 63 and Missouri State Highway 32 in northern Texas County, as well as being the northern terminus of State Highway 137. It is about 13 miles northeast of [[Houston, Missouri|Houston]], and about 20 miles southwest of [[Salem, Missouri|Salem]]. Its exact coordinates are 37°29’58”N 91°51’26”W.
The city lies on an elevated plateau that separates the Current River valley to the east from the Big Piney River, a tributary of the [[Missouri River]], to the west. Montauk State Park, at the headwaters of the Current River, is a few miles to the east. Licking has a total area of 2.14 square miles, and an average elevation of 1,263 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120112090031/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
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