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Mead is located at (40.224781, -104.988573 It sits approximately 35 miles north of the State Capitol in Denver . According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2 ), of which, 4.3 square miles (11 km 2 ) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ) of it (2.71%) is water.
The Mead Corporation was founded as Ells, Claflin & Co in 1846. [9] [10] In 1856, the name was changed to Weston & Mead. [10]In 1861, it became Mead & Weston. [10] In 1881, the company's name changed again, this time to The Mead Paper Company. [10]
In 1924 Dodd purchased Moffat, Yard & Co., adding books by William James, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung to their list. Dodd, Mead's New International Encyclopedia was sold in 1931 to Funk & Wagnalls. In 1934, Dodd, Mead acquired Duffield and Green, publisher of Elinor Glyn, Emma Gelders Sterne, and General Krasnov; and the Sears Publishing Company.
The company dates back to a firm created by Edward Mead Johnson, one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson, who created his own business in 1895, which was renamed Mead Johnson & Company in 1905. The company was majority owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb after an acquisition in 1967, but was spun-off in 2009 as an independent firm.
Meade County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,003. [1] Its county seat is Brandenburg. [2] The county was founded December 17, 1823, and named for Captain James M. Meade, who was killed in action at the Battle of River Raisin during the War of 1812.
In the State of Colorado, only Denver and Broomfield have consolidated city and county governments. The City and County of Denver operates under Article XX, Section 4 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado; and Title 30, Article 11, Section 101 of the Colorado Revised Statutes.
Meade County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota.As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,852, making it the 6th most populous county in South Dakota. [1] Its county seat is Sturgis. [2]
Lake Mead, formed by the 726-foot (221 m)-high Hoover Dam about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest reservoir in the United States with a full capacity of 28,945,000 acre-feet (35.703 km 3) and a water surface of nearly 250 square miles (650 km 2). However, the lake has not been full for many years due to a ...