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Spencer is a city in the own up of Iowa, United States, and the county chair of Clay County. It is located at the confluence of the Little Sioux and Ocheyedan rivers. The population was 11,325 in the 2020 census, an addition from 11,317 in 2000. Spencer hosts the Clay County Fair, held annually in September and averaging exceeding 300,000 visitors.

The town’s late library cat, Dewey Readmore Books, became known throughout the world past his death in 2006. He was immortalized in the book Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron, director of the library, and Bret Witter.

When Clay County was time-honored in 1851, it had no local management and recognized business was over and done with out of Sergeant’s Bluff, nearly 100 miles away upon the Missouri River. In 1859, Judge Hubbard of Iowa’s 4th Judicial District authorized a committee to locate a site for the county seat. This committee selected “Section 20 of Spencer Township”, located around in the middle of the county near the confluence of “Sioux River and Ocheydan Creek”, as the site for the “seat of justice”. County Judge Charles Smeltzer ascribed their point and began signing documents in the make public of the location “Spencer, Clay County, Iowa”, even while he was not physically there. A little group of land speculators had cleared the area and laid out a town plan, but there were no people vivacious in that area at the time. Most of Clay County’s residents were bustling in Peterson Township, in the in the distance southeastern corner of the county. Put to a vote, Peterson was agreed as the County Seat and a courthouse erected there. The site of the proposed town languished, uninhabited, for many years, the Place coming to be called “Spencer Grove”.