Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,548. The county seat is Winterset. Madison County is included in the Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Madison County is famous for being the county where John Wayne was born, and for a number of covered bridges. These bridges were featured in Robert James Waller's 1992 novella The Bridges of Madison County, as well as the 1995 film and 2014 musical based on it.
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Winterset, Iowa in the context of Grand River (Missouri)
The Grand River is a river that stretches from northernmost tributary origins between Creston and Winterset in Iowa approximately 226 miles (364Â km) to its mouth on the Missouri River near Brunswick, Missouri.
Its watershed of 7,900 square miles (20,000Â km), with three-quarters in Missouri, makes it the largest watershed serving the Missouri River in northern Missouri.