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Pages in category "People from Cerro Gordo County, Iowa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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When Cerro Gordo County was created in 1855 Mason City was selected to be the county seat. Dissatisfaction in the western part of the county led the Iowa General Assembly to appoint three new commissioners who would move the county seat to a site they called Livonia, which was near Clear Lake. A courthouse was built there, and some of the ...
Cerro Gordo County (/ ˈ s ɛr oʊ ˈ ɡ ɔːr d oʊ /; Spanish: [ˈsero ˈɣoɾðo]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,127. [1] Its county seat is Mason City. [2] The county is named for the Battle of Cerro Gordo, which took place during the Mexican–American War.
The south-eastern part of Iowa Territory became Iowa, the 29th state in the union, on December 28, 1846, [3] by which point 44 counties had been created. Counties continued to be created by the state government until 1857, when the last county, Humboldt County , was created. [ 4 ]
CHIPPEWA FALLS — A man convicted of raping a woman and leaving her tied to a tree in rural Chippewa Falls in 1983, then later escaped from a halfway house in Madison in 1995, has been ...