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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1B66A0">NOAA, Census Mark 2020
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Center of Population<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p style="line-height:12.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Today in Hartville, Missouri, the U.S. Census Bureau and
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<span style="color:#1B66A0">NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS)</span></a> will dedicate a
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<span style="color:#1B66A0">commemorative survey mark</span></a>, designating Hartville as the 2020 Census Center of Population. Hartville is the town closest to the point where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance
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<p style="line-height:12.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">This “center” represents the average location of where people in the United States live. The designated location is based on the
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<span style="color:#1B66A0">2020 Census data</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:12.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">“The 2020 Center of Population commemorative mark is a tribute to Hartville, the surveying community, and the science of geodesy,” said NGS Director
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