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Plato is an incorporated village in northwestern Texas County, Missouri, United States. It is located about 20 miles northwest of Houston, Missouri and 10 miles south of Fort Leonard Wood on Route 32. The population was 109 at the 2010 census. The community was founded in 1874 and is named after the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is the birthplace of screenwriter Josh Senter who is known for his work on ''Desperate Housewives''. As of the 2010 U.S. Census Plato is the Mean center of United States population of the distribution of the U.S. population.〔Sutter, John D. "(Plato: Town at the center of America )." ''CNN''. May 17, 2011. Retrieved on May 17, 2011.〕 On November 13, 2012 Jason Beacham, a 15-year-old student at Plato R-V school, was featured in the television program ''Doomsday Preppers'' on the National Geographic Channel. The second episode of Season Two, titled ''Am I Nuts or Are You?'' interviewed Beacham about his plans for survival in the event of a national or worldwide economic collapse. Further, he demonstrated practicing with firearms, manufacturing homemade weapons, and initiating a friend into a small survivalist group of fellow students. Scenes from around the town and inside the school were shown. ==Mean center of the United States== In March 2011 Plato was declared the 2010 Mean center of United States population based on 2010 Census data.〔(Centers of Population for the 2010 Census ), U.S. Census Bureau〕 The report of Plato as being the mean center was first reported on the Wikipedia mean center page in December 21, 2010 – nearly 3 months before the census officially declared it. The report got quite wide coverage after being reported in the Houston, Missouri Herald article and a Connecticut Public Radio broadcast. Reports subsequently said that Alex Zakrewsky, a planner from Middlesex County, New Jersey claimed to have been the source for the Wikipedia article. Zakrewsky said he had plugged the 2010 numbers into a spreadsheet he developed using year 2000 data to calculate the center. He said that a colleague posted it to Wikipedia. His calculation placed it to the west of the community on Robidoux Creek, 3.2 miles off the official Census report which placed it on the east side of the community (). The mean center has been moving southwest through Missouri about 20 to 30 miles per decade since 1980 when it was near DeSoto, Missouri. In 2000 it was near Edgar Springs, Missouri. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plato, Missouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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