{"id":22869,"date":"2020-02-01T20:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T01:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=22869"},"modified":"2022-08-03T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:32:22","slug":"iowa-counties-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/iowa-counties-visited\/","title":{"rendered":"Counties in Iowa that I have Visited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There are 99 Counties in Iowa &#8211; &#8220;<em>The Hawkeye State<\/em>&#8220;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Also be sure to see my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/counties\/united-states-county-map.html\">United States County Counting Page<\/a> for the rest of the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/counties\/united-states-county-map.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/counties\/iowa.png\" alt=\"Iowa Counties Visited\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I have visited <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">32 Counties<\/span> = 32.3% of Counties in Iowa<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank.&nbsp; Map created using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mob-rule.com\/home\">Mob Rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"articles\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Twelve Mile Circle Articles Featuring Places in Iowa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1DBSW8vdb6uRV2I8SeGY8dOdjZDKYRPNT\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markers designate the Iowa locations featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twelvemilecircle.com\">Twelve Mile Circle<\/a> articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Counties in Iowa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/34177167044\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4202\/34177167044_9e5410cc8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"Rural Iowa\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are the 99 counties in Iowa. Although infrequent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/counties\/united-states-county-map.html\">counties sometimes do change<\/a> so please let me know if any of this information is out of date and I will update it. Those counties that I have visited are highlighted in <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Red<\/b><\/span>. Readers can also link to any articles manually in this section if the map isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Adair<\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Adams<\/b><\/span>: Smallest county population in Iowa (4,482 people in 2000 Census).<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Allamakee<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=22857\">Effigy Mounds National Monument<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=13215\">Quad County Towns<\/a><\/li><li>Appanoose: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16462\">Center of Power<\/a><\/li><li>Audubon: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14574\">For the Birds<\/a><\/li><li>Benton: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14652\">What State U<\/a><\/li><li>Black Hawk<\/li><li>Boone: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17206\">Boone Scraps<\/a><\/li><li>Bremer<\/li><li>Buchanan<\/li><li>Buena Vista<\/li><li>Butler<\/li><li>Calhoun<\/li><li>Carroll<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Cass<\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Cedar<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Cerro Gordo<\/li><li>Cherokee<\/li><li>Chickasaw<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Clarke<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Clay<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Clayton<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=21751\">Cassville Ferry<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/zymurgy\/old-man-river.html\">Old Man River Restaurant &amp; Brewery<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=13215\">Quad County Towns<\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Clinton<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17690\">Clinton<\/a><\/li><li>Crawford<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Dallas<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=9635\">X Marks the Spot<\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Davis<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Decatur<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Delaware<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Des Moines<\/li><li>Dickinson: Smallest county in Iowa (381 square miles).<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Dubuque<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15940\">All In a Name<\/a><\/li><li>Emmet<\/li><li>Fayette<\/li><li>Floyd<\/li><li>Franklin<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Fremont<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Greene<\/li><li>Grundy<\/li><li>Guthrie<\/li><li>Hamilton<\/li><li>Hancock<\/li><li>Hardin<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Harrison<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=13915\">Loess<\/a><\/li><li>Henry<\/li><li>Howard<\/li><li>Humboldt: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=2214\">Throw the Dart<\/a><\/li><li>Ida<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Iowa<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16570\">Iowa-Iowa-Iowa<\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Jackson<\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Jasper<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Jefferson<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Johnson<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Jones: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15081\">More Than Just a State<\/a><\/li><li>Keokuk<\/li><li>Kossuth: Largest county in Iowa (973 square miles); <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15546\">The Odd Case of Iowa&#8217;s Largest County<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15548\">Can&#8217;t Get Enough of Kossuth<\/a><\/li><li>Lee<\/li><li>Linn: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=7547\">Potomac in Iowa<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14420\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Bait and Switch<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16077\">Nearly Nothing Named for Nixon<\/a><\/li><li>Louisa<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Lucas<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=18011\">Last Chance<\/a><\/li><li>Lyon<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Madison<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Mahaska<\/li><li>Marion<\/li><li>Marshall<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Mills<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Mitchell<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Monona<\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Monroe<\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Montgomery<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Muscatine<\/li><li>O&#8217;Brien<\/li><li>Osceola<\/li><li>Page<\/li><li>Palo Alto<\/li><li>Plymouth<\/li><li>Pocahontas<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Polk<\/b><\/span>: Largest county population in Iowa (374,601 people in 2000 Census); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/zymurgy\/court-avenue.html\">Court Avenue Brewing Co.<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/zymurgy\/saints.html\">Saint&#8217;s Brewing Company<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14632\">Geo-BrEWities<\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Pottawattamie<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=26\">Carter Lake<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=12747\">Impressive Pedestrian Bridges<\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Poweshiek<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Ringgold<\/li><li>Sac<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Scott<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17705\">Buffalo Bill Homestead<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17705\">American Pickers<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17301\">Great Scott<\/a><\/li><li>Shelby: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=12081\">King of Portmanteau<\/a><\/li><li>Sioux<\/li><li>Story<\/li><li>Tama<\/li><li>Taylor: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=10731\">Natural Forces: Gravitation<\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Union<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=4291\">Twelve Mile Mormons<\/a><\/li><li>Van Buren<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Wapello<\/b><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Warren<\/b><\/span><\/li><li>Washington<\/li><li>Wayne<\/li><li>Webster<\/li><li>Winnebago<\/li><li>Winneshiek<\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Woodbury<\/b><\/span>: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14456\">Three Letter Oddities<\/a><\/li><li>Worth: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17593\">Directional Surname Frequency<\/a>; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17582\">Even More Manly Places<\/a><\/li><li>Wright<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick Facts About Iowa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><b>Location:<\/b> West North Central United States. See map above.<\/li><li><b>Size<sup>(<a href=\"#Footnote-1\">1<\/a>)<\/sup>:<\/b> 55,857 square miles. Iowa is the 23rd largest state. The next larger state is Michigan and the next smaller state is Illinois.<\/li><li><b>Population<sup>(<a href=\"#Footnote-2\">2<\/a>)<\/sup>:<\/b> 3,156,145 people. Iowa is the 31st most populous state. The next more populous state is Utah and the next less populous state is Nevada.<\/li><li><b>Population Density:<\/b> 56.5 people per square mile. Iowa is the 36th most densely populated state. The next more densely populated state is Oklahoma and the next less densely populated state is Colorado.<\/li><li><b>Bordering States:<\/b> Iowa shares a border with 6 states: Minnesota; South Dakota; Nebraska; Missouri; Illinois and Wisconsin.<\/li><li><b>Admission to the Union:<\/b> December 28, 1846. Iowa was the 29th state admitted to the Union, after Texas and before Wisconsin.<\/li><li><b>Capital:<\/b> Des Moines.<\/li><li><b>Highest Point:<\/b> 1,670 feet at Hawkeye Point. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitpost.org\/hawkeye-point\/152530\">SummitPost&#8217;s Hawkeye Point page<\/a>.<\/li><li><b>Lowest Point:<\/b> 480 feet at the Mississippi River in Lee County.<\/li><li><b>Government website:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowa.gov\/\">iowa.gov<\/a>.<\/li><li><b>Official Tourism website:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traveliowa.com\/\">Travel Iowa<\/a>.<\/li><li><b>Still not enough?<\/b> See <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iowa\">Wikipedia&#8217;s Iowa page<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"Footnote-1\"><\/a>(1) Wikipedia: <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;List of U.S. states and territories by area&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:1055233,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;Linux Libertine\\&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif&quot;,&quot;23&quot;:1}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=HYPERLINK(&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area&quot;,&quot;List of U.S. states and territories by area&quot;)\" data-sheets-hyperlink=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">List of U.S. states and territories by area<\/a><\/span>. Land area only.<br><a name=\"Footnote-2\"><\/a>(2) Wikipedia: <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;List of states and territories of the United States by population&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:1055233,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;Linux Libertine\\&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif&quot;,&quot;23&quot;:1}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=HYPERLINK(&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population&quot;,&quot;List of states and territories of the United States by population&quot;)\" data-sheets-hyperlink=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">List of states and territories of the United States by population<\/a><\/span>. Estimated population on July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 99 Counties in Iowa &#8211; &#8220;The Hawkeye State&#8220; Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states. I have visited 32 Counties = 32.3% of Counties in Iowa Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank.&nbsp; Map created using Mob Rule. 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