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Topographic map of the bootheel and surrounding areas of Missouri and neighboring states.. The Missouri Bootheel is a salient (protrusion) located in the southeasternmost part of the U.S. state of Missouri, extending south of 36°30′ north latitude, so called because its shape in relation to the rest of the state resembles the heel of a boot.
Mooney delineated the region as "covering West Kentucky, West Tennessee, part of the Tennessee River Valley in Alabama, the northern half of Mississippi, the Eastern half of Arkansas and southeast Missouri". [3] Southern Illinois (especially Cairo, shown on the map) and Southwestern Indiana are also occasionally included in this region.
Missouri generally has a humid continental climate with cool, sometimes cold, winters and hot, humid, and wet summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in the Bootheel, the climate becomes humid subtropical. Located in the interior United States, Missouri often experiences extreme temperatures.
Pemiscot County is a county located in the southeastern corner in the Bootheel in the U.S. state of Missouri, with the Mississippi River forming its eastern border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,661.
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A 1948 article in the Missouri Historical Review defined the antebellum "Little Dixie" region as a 13-county area between the Mississippi River north of St. Louis to Missouri River counties in the central part of the state (Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Howard, Lincoln, Pike, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Randolph, Saline, and Shelby counties).
Sikeston / ˈ s aɪ k s t ən / is a city located both in southern Scott County and northern New Madrid County, in the state of Missouri, United States.It is situated just north of the "Missouri Bootheel", although many locals consider Sikeston a part of it.
Bootheel can refer to: The heel of a boot (a type of footwear) In the United States, a term used for a short type of panhandle protruding southward, including: The Missouri Bootheel, a region in the southeastern part of the state The New Mexico Bootheel, a region in the southwestern part of the state