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Florida is a village in Monroe County, Missouri
Monroe County, Missouri

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. The county was organized in 1831 and named for U.S. President James Monroe. As of 2000, the population was 9,311....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, best known as the birthplace of writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
 in 1835. The population was 9 at the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
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ida is located at (39.491712, -91.789973).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the village has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.3 kmē), all land.

f the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 9 people, 4 households, and 2 families residing in the village.






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Florida is a village in Monroe County, Missouri
Monroe County, Missouri

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. The county was organized in 1831 and named for U.S. President James Monroe. As of 2000, the population was 9,311....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, best known as the birthplace of writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
 in 1835. The population was 9 at the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
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Geography

Florida is located at (39.491712, -91.789973).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the village has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.3 kmē), all land.

Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 9 people, 4 households, and 2 families residing in the village. The population density
Population density

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 was 86.4 people per square mile (34.7/kmē). There were 21 housing units at an average density of 201.7/sq mi (82.1/kmē). All residents were White.

There were 4 households out of which one had children under the age of 18 living with them, one was a married couple
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, one had a female householder with no husband present, and two were non-families. One household was made up of an individual who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 3.

In the village the population was spread out with two under the age of 18 (both females), two from 18 to 25, two from 25 to 45, one from 45 to 65, and two who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. There were six females (including the two under 18) and three males.

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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was born in Florida. One of Twain's famous quotes was "I was born in a small town called Florida, Missouri. It had a population of 100 people, and my birth made it 101. I raised the population of the town by 1%. Not many other people were great enough to raise their town's population by 1%."

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