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Sioux City, city (1990 pop. 80,505), seat of Woodbury co., NW Iowa, at the junction of the Big Sioux and Floyd rivers with the Missouri; inc. 1857. It is a shipping, wholesale trade, and industrial center for an extensive agricultural and livestock area (including nearby states). It has a huge, central livestock market, a leading hog market, meatpacking houses, and processing plants for popcorn, poultry, and honey. Chemicals and fertilizers, electric and electronic goods, consumer products, feeds, apparel, machinery, transportation and computer equipment, communication towers, and seed are among its diverse products. The city was named to a honor a Sioux chief who aided the area's early pioneers. Morningside College and Briar Cliff Univ. are there. Nearby is a monument commemorating the death and burial (1804) of Sgt. Charles Floyd of the Lewis and Clark expedition Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail (see National Parks and Monuments , table).
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| Walker Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa, has opted to not grant a dispensation to the 100,000 Catholics in his diocese. When the dairy farm of Amy and Terry Aberson of Sioux City, Iowa, burned down last spring, how could they know that it would lead to a dream come true? Appearing April 9 on eBay, the host was sold for $2,000, Associated Press reports, although the sale was never completed after protests by the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, where the host was located. |
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