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0463138 [2] Website. winterset.gov. Winterset is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Iowa. [3] The population was 5,353 at the time of the 2020 census. [4] Winterset is part of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It is the birthplace of actor John Wayne. [5]
Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,548. [1] The county seat is Winterset. [2] Madison County is included in the Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. [3] Madison County is famous for being the county where John Wayne was born, and for a number of ...
Clark Tower. Winterset City Park is a public, city-owned park in Winterset, Iowa, United States. The first acres of land was bought on May 21, 1869, for cattle to graze on. In the 1950s, the land was converted into a city park. On March 10, 2021, Winterset City Park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places after it was nominated ...
cities, towns, townships, unincorporated communities, census designated place. There are 99 counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The first two counties, Des Moines County and Dubuque County, were created in 1834 when Iowa was still part of the Michigan Territory. In preparation for Michigan's statehood, part of Michigan Territory was formed into ...
December 22, 2015. Winterset Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Winterset, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 82 resources, including 74 contributing buildings, seven ...
A view from the top of Clark Tower. Clark Tower is a castle -like limestone tower located in Winterset City Park in Winterset, Iowa, United States. It was erected in 1926, on the eightieth anniversary of the founding of Madison County, in memory of Caleb Clark, a stonemason who was the first white settler of Madison County, and his wife Ruth ...
The Miles and Elizabeth Smith Kellogg House is a historic building located southwest of Winterset in rural Madison County, Iowa, United States. It was studied as part of the thematic resource, Legacy in Stone: The Settlement Era of Madison County, Iowa. The buildings in the study are located near extensive limestone deposits that were used by ...
The geography of Iowa includes the study of bedrock, landforms, rivers, geology, paleontology and urbanisation of the U.S. state of Iowa. The state covers an area of 56,272.81 sq mi (145,746 km 2).