Crossword clues for des moines
des moines
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in Iowa, U.S., named for French Rivière des Moines, the river that flows past it, which traditionally is derived from French des moines "of the monks," in reference to missionaries, but this probably is a fur trappers' folk-etymologizing of a name of the native people who lived there.\n
\nThe place appears in a 1673 text as Moinguena, and historians believe this represents Miami-Illinois mooyiinkweena, literally "shitface," from mooy "excrement" + iinkwee "face;" a name given by the Peoria Indians (whose name has itself become a sort of insult) to their western neighbors. It is not unusual for Indian peoples to have hostile or derogatory names for others, but this seems an extreme case.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 93
Land area (2000): 1.091381 sq. miles (2.826664 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.091381 sq. miles (2.826664 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20480
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 36.760167 N, 103.835317 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88418
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Des Moines
Housing Units (2000): 85067
Land area (2000): 75.796433 sq. miles (196.311853 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.451177 sq. miles (3.758532 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 77.247610 sq. miles (200.070385 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21000
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.590939 N, 93.620866 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50309 50310 50312 50313 50314 50315
Headwords:
Des Moines
Housing Units (2000): 11777
Land area (2000): 6.339602 sq. miles (16.419492 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.339602 sq. miles (16.419492 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17635
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.394120 N, 122.317983 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98198
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Des Moines
Housing Units (2000): 18643
Land area (2000): 416.148452 sq. miles (1077.819498 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.649589 sq. miles (35.352273 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 429.798041 sq. miles (1113.171771 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.854437 N, 91.156013 W
Headwords:
Des Moines, IA
Des Moines County
Des Moines County, IA
Wikipedia
Des Moines is the capital of the state of Iowa in the United States.
Des Moines may also refer to:
Places- Des Moines metropolitan area, the metropolitan area for Des Moines, Iowa
- Des Moines County, Iowa
- Des Moines River
- Des Moines, Washington
- Des Moines, New Mexico
- Des Moines Township, Jackson County, Minnesota
- Des Moines Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa
- Des Moines-class cruiser used by the US Navy
- "Dez Moines", a song from the album With Roots Above and Branches Below by the American metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada.
Usage examples of "des moines".
Things like that didn't happen in Des Moines, so we gaped extensively.
This driving around Des Moines is not the way I want to spend my last minutes or hours of life.
He informed us that the body of the deceased was being brought here to Des Moines, and he said we ought to come here, and we agreed, so he brought us in his ship.
What the President needed to do the Old Man had already figured out-declare a national emergency, fence off the Des Moines area, and shoot anybody who tried to slip out, be it a cocker spaniel or grandma with her cookie jar.
Bottom line: We've got a guy who killed a family of four in Des Moines.
We found out that all the houses were older, not just here, but also in Des Moines and St.
What Cincinnatus wanted to know more about weren't world-shaking events, and they didn't have anything directly to do with Des Moines, either.
Do you know I went to the Lorillard School in Des Moines on full scholarship?
I expect to see Mama frown at me when I get a glass of milk even though she has gone to Des Moines.
Anyhow, if the Patrol was to bomb Des Moines tonight, at this time, it wouldn't use Jay-three for the very reason that it is overhead.
Right here in town at first, then in Cedar Rapids, and then in Des Moines.
He hadn't called her that since the day he'd met her in Des Moines.
When I was a boy I had an afternoon newspaper route in the wealthiest neighborhood in Des Moines, which sounds like a plum assignment but was not because, in the first place, rich people ø.