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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.
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
A salient, panhandle, or bootheel is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state. While similar to a peninsula in shape, a salient is most often not surrounded by water on three sides.
The bootheel is a sparsely populated (less than 1 person per square mile or 2.6 km 2) region known primarily as a cattle-ranching area, with the best-known ranch being the 500-square-mile (1,300 km 2) Diamond A Ranch in the Animas Valley, [1] although mining also played a part in the development of the bootheel with the abandoned mining town of ...
Bootheel Conference [6] Carroll-Livingston Activity Association [7] [8] Central Activities Conference [9] Central Ozark Conference [10] [11] [12] Clarence Cannon Conference [13] Cooper County Activities Association [14] Crossroads Conference [15] [16] Eastern Missouri Conference [17] Four Rivers Conference [18] Frisco League [19] Gasconade ...
John Hardeman Walker (March 3, 1794 – April 30, 1860) was an early landowner in southeast Missouri, most famous for convincing the United States Congress to place the Bootheel in Missouri instead of Arkansas. Walker was born in Fayette County, Tennessee.
Kennett is a city in and the county seat of Dunklin County, Missouri, United States.The city is located in the southeast corner (or "Bootheel") of Missouri, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Arkansas and 20 miles (32 km) from the Mississippi River.
a lowland in the extreme southeast bootheel region of Missouri, part of the Atlantic Plain known as the Mississippi Alluvial Plain or the Mississippi embayment; the Missouri portion of the Ozark Plateau (areas 14a and 14b) which lies between the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Central lowland.