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Iowa is located along the eastern edge of Calcasieu Parish at (30.237433, -93.014191 The eastern border of the town is the Jefferson Davis Parish line.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Iowa has a total area of 3.17 square miles (8.22 km 2), of which 3.15 square miles (8.15 km 2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.07 km 2), or 0.80%, is water.
The name Pateros is most likely derived from the duck-raising industry. The Tagalog word (of Spanish origin) for "duck" is pato and pateros, "duck-raisers".The early 19th-century U.S. diplomat Edmund Roberts used Duck-town, another name for Pateros, stating that he "never before saw so many ducks together" in one place. [6]
La Porte City is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,284 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Pateros City Council accepted an offer to relocate the town, and the PUD spent about US$1,000,000 on moving or demolishing buildings and improving the town's infrastructure. [8] Wells Dam went into operation in 1967. [7] Despite relocation of the city, the population dropped by almost a third from 1960 to 1970. [9]
Iowa code Section 368.25 says if municipal services aren't provided within three years of annexation, or if a city fails to show "substantial and continuing progress" to provide services according ...
Sharon Township is one of the twenty townships of Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is located on the southern county line, about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Iowa City (at Township 78 North, Range 7 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian). It is adjacent to Washington, Union and Liberty Townships, as well as Washington County.
Sirens blared at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region.
The LaPorte City Town Hall and Fire Station is a historic building located in La Porte City, Iowa, United States. The town hall/fire station portion of the buildings was completed in 1876, five years after the town was organized. [2] The two-story, brick structure has a gable roof hidden behind a metal false front. A two-story brick addition ...