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unusual facts about Jackson County, Iowa Law Enforcement



Austin Peay

Entities named for Peay include Austin Peay State University, which he had authorized while governor, a bridge over the Cumberland River (since demolished) in Jackson County, and a highway in West Tennessee (a portion of Tennessee State Route 14).

Centennial, Wyoming

Loggers returned to the area in 1905 to cut timber for a coal mine near Coalmont in Jackson County, Colorado.

Charles A. Blair

Blair held several public offices including serving as prosecuting attorney for Jackson County.

Charles Gargotta

On April 5, 1950, Binaggio and Gargotta drove to the Jackson County, Missouri Democratic Club in Kansas City to meet a trusted associate.

Fish Lake, Minnesota

Fish Lake is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Christiania Township, Jackson County, Minnesota, United States.

Harvey H. Cluff

David Cluff had come to Kirtland to learn more of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and meet with Joseph Smith, Jr. The family later moved to Jackson County, Missouri, Springfield, Illinois and then in 1840 to Nauvoo, Illinois.

Jackson County, Alabama

Russell Cave is an important archaeological site that was excavated in 1956 by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society.

Jackson County, Indiana

On October 6, 1866 the Reno Gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway train making off with over $10,000.They were nicknamed: "The Jackson Theives" later on.

Jackson County, Iowa Law Enforcement

For its patrol vehicles, the Sheriff's Department uses the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chevy Impala.

Jackson County, Kentucky

David "Stringbean" Akeman, country music star who was born and raised in Annville
Freddie Langdon
Randy Hayes (guitar player in the Keith Whitley Band)
Woody Brooks (has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
Andrew N. Johnson, Prohibition Party's 1944 nominee for vice president of the United States

Jackson County, Michigan

The Grand River goes through the outskirts of the park, the Penn Central Transportation Company railroad track also goes through the park.

Jackson County, North Carolina

Several movies have been filmed in the county including the 1993 blockbuster action-adventure The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, the 1972 drama Deliverance, and the 1996 comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner.

Jackson Transportation Authority

The Jackson Transportation Authority is the primary provider of mass transportation in Jackson County, Michigan.

James Charles Wilson

He lived in Brazoria, Texas where he became district clerk before representing Calhoun, Jackson, Matagorda, and Wharton counties in the House of Representatives of the Third and Fourth Legislatures from 1848 to 1853.

John Hailey

John married Louisa M. Griffin on August 7, 1856 in Jackson County, Oregon, and they would have six children including Thomas G. Hailey who would serve in the Oregon Supreme Court.

Joseph Knight, Sr.

They constituted the Colesville Branch, the first branch in the church, and they later sold their homes and properties and migrated as a group to Thompson, Ohio and then Jackson County, Missouri.

Kentucky Route 21

After US 25 breaks away and goes north toward the Blue Grass Army Depot, KY 21 continues to the east and intersects US 421 in Bighill before ending at the Jackson County line.

KY 21 passes through more farmland and woodland and winds southeast to its eastern terminus at the county line between Madison County and Jackson County.

Kentucky Route 3630

The road heads into a mix of farms and woods, winding north and entering Jackson County.

Lacy Homestead

The first settlers of this area came from Jackson County, Georgia and areas of Virginia, bringing their customs and architectural styles with them to the area.

Lake Columbia

Lake Columbia is a small man-made lake in Columbia Township in southern Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

Lawrence James McNamara

He was a parish priest and high school teacher, Diocesan Refugee Resettlement Director, Chairman of the United Campaign Agency Executives Association, Chaplain of Jackson County Jail, President of the Kansas City Citizens' Alliance for the War on Poverty.

Martha Ellen Young Truman

Martha Ellen Young was born in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 25, 1852, to Solomon Young, a successful farmer who also had a business running Conestoga wagon trains along the Overland Trail, and his wife Harriet Louisa Gregg.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

Pseudometapterus umbrosus

The vast majority of observed individuals are mictropterus, but in 2000, a macropterus (full-size winged) female was observed in Little Grand Canyon, Jackson County, Southern Illinois.

Randy D. Dunn

Representative Dunn was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 18th, 1982 to the Union of Randy Dunn and Janice Dunn, Democratic Committeewoman for the 18th Ward in Jackson County Missouri.

Richard C. Kerens

Richard C. Kerens (1842–1916) was an American contractor and politician, born in Killberry, County Meath, Ireland, brought to the U. S. in infancy, and educated in the public schools of Jackson Co., Iowa.

SOCM

The Roaring River Chapter is made up of residents of Putnam County, Tennessee, Jackson County, Tennessee, and Overton County, Tennessee.

South Dakota Highway 240

South Dakota Highway 240 (SD 240), also signed the "Badlands Loop", is located in southeast Pennington and northwest Jackson counties of southwestern South Dakota.

The School Of Alternatives

The School Of Alternatives, also known as The HUB, is an alternative school in Jackson County, North Carolina for grades K-12 which deals with students who are disabled or have social/behavioral issues in the other county schools.

Tim Freeman

In 2008, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 2, which encompasses portions of Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine counties, including the cities of Canyonville, Glendale, Myrtle Creek, Riddle, and Roseburg.

Tim Worley

Police held Worley in custody on outstanding warrants from Arcade in Jackson County and Social Circle in Walton County.

Vallonia, Indiana

Vallonia is an unincorporated community in Driftwood Township, Jackson County, Indiana, and as an 18th-century French settlement and 19th-century American frontier fortification known as Fort Vallonia.

Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Indians

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized Indian (Native American) tribe with a reservation in Jackson County, Kansas.

Wayne Mixson

Born in New Brockton, Alabama, immediately after graduating from high school he moved to Jackson County, Florida.

Willamette Stone

In Jackson County, Meridian Road runs along several miles of the meridian.

Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick – mostly taken in the city of Black River Falls – and local news reports from the same period.

WJXQ

The TM format was maintained until 1981, when the station moved its tower and transmitter location from Jackson (also the station's then-city of license) to a location four miles east-north-east of the town of Springport in the northwestern part of Jackson County and increased power from 20,000 watts to 50,000 watts in preparation to invade the Lansing market with a brand new format.


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