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PETERSON is the county seat, on the Little Sioux River, seventy miles northeast of Fort Dodge. It has a Methodist Episcopal church, and one general store. Population, 75.   (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)

County seat moved to Spencer, Iowa in 1871.

Latitude
42.917324
Longitude
-95.343117
Type
City or Town
County
Clay
State
Iowa