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Hartville, Missouri celebrated Wednesday Sept. 21 as “Center of U-S population”
Today, officials with the Census Bureau and NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) are in the small town of Hartville, Missouri – to mark it as the nation’s new center of population.
Hartville — population 594 — is the county seat of Wright County in Southern Missouri.
The celebration begins at 4:30 this afternoon.