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Woodson County is twenty-one miles north and south, twenty-four miles east and west containing 504 square miles, or 322,560 acres with an estimated population of 4,020 (1997). At the heart of the county is Woodson School District 366 providing the only two educational facilities located in the county, even though seven school districts pull from our county resources. The county seat of Yates Center (Hay Capital of the World) has one elementary school, which serves Pre-kindergarten through eighth grade students, and one high school, which serves ninth through twelfth grade students as well as providing an adult education center.