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Mount Ayr is a city in Ringgold County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,623 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] [4] Mount Ayr is a rural community in southwestern Iowa, 22 miles west of Interstate 35 on State Highway 2. Mount Ayr was founded in 1875 and the community was named in honor of poet Robert Burns’ birthplace in Ayr ...
Ringgold County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,663, [1] making it the Iowa county with the second-smallest population. The county seat is Mount Ayr. [2] The county is named after Maj. Samuel Ringgold, a hero of the Battle of Palo Alto fought in May 1846, during the Mexican–American ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Maloy is on Iowa County Road J43 approximately ten miles west-southwest of Mount Ayr.The Little Platte River flows past the west side of the community. [6]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.62 square miles (1.61 km 2), all land.
Give Our Strays A Chance (GOSAC) is an organisation founded in 2013 by a Western Australian 10-year-old boy Dean Morris, [1] for the purpose of raising awareness of animal rescue and raising donations for animal shelters and pounds.
Mount Ayr Community School District, or Mount Ayr Community Schools, is a rural public school district headquartered in Mount Ayr, Iowa. It has elementary and secondary (middle and high school) divisions. The district is mostly in Ringgold County, while there are portions in Decatur and Taylor counties.
The Ringgold County Jail is a historic building located in Mount Ayr, Iowa, United States. It was the second building that housed the county jail from its completion in 1895 until the present Ringgold County Courthouse and jail was built in 1927. The building was sold to the American Legion who used it for its local post until 1978.
Technical Sergeant Edward Francis Niland (December 22, 1912 – February 28, 1984), [2] U.S. Army Air Forces: Imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp in Burma, he was captured on May 16, 1944, and liberated on May 4, 1945.