Editing Nodaway County, Missouri (section)

==History==
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[[Image:Nwmsu-admin.jpg|thumb|Administration Building at [[Northwest Missouri State University]]]]
[[Image:Mozingo-golf1.jpg|thumb|[[Mozingo Lake]] Golf Course]]

The county has a rich agricultural history. It is the home of trainers [[Ben A. Jones|Ben Jones]] and Jimmy Jones, whose horses won six [[Kentucky Derby]] races and two Triple Crowns.

The county is home to [[Northwest Missouri State University]]. The university's grounds were a re-creation of the landscape of the [[1904 St. Louis World's Fair]]. In 1993, Northwest was designated by the Missouri State Legislature as the official Missouri Arboretum. [[ESPN]] has carried the university's participation in five national championship football games, three of which they won.

[[U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice [[Clarence Thomas]] studied to become a priest at [[Conception Seminary College]], before giving it up for law. The [[Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration]] convent in neighboring [[Clyde, Missouri|Clyde]] has 550 relics of saints, the largest collection in the nation.

Located in [[Tornado Alley]], many tornadoes have struck the county, including an F4 tornado on March 29, 1979, which obliterated the town of [[Braddyville, Iowa]] across the county line. Tornadoes have damaged two of the county's largest buildings, the Administration Building on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University and [[Conception Abbey]]. The [[1881 Hopkins tornado]] is one of the first recorded [[List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes|F5 tornadoes]].

Early life in the county was chronicled by writer [[Homer Croy]], a Nodaway County native, in many books, articles, films and Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s.

===Etymology===
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The origin of the name "Nodaway" has been attributed to a Pottawatomie name for "placid," a Dakota Sioux name for "crossed without canoe," and various tribes names for "snake."