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Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,525. [1] Its county seat is Denison. [2] The county was named for William Harris Crawford, [3] U.S. senator from Georgia and United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Denison is a city in Crawford County, Iowa, United States, along the Boyer River, and located in both Denison Township and East Boyer Township. The population was 8,373 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Denison Township covers an area of 35.39 square miles (91.7 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Denison (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains five cemeteries: Crawford County Home, Crawford Heights Memorial, Oakland, Saint Rose of Lima and Zion.
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A federal grand jury in Des Moines indicted 18 people with bank fraud and money laundering charges. Part of a nationwide scheme, defendants from Arizona, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana allegedly drew ...
In 1906, the Shelby County Bank and First National Bank were consolidated under the name of the Shelby County State Bank. In May 1911, H.P. Dowling presided as bank President and by 1913 the deposits of the bank had reached a total of $780,000. In 1933, The Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank of Harlan merged with The Shelby County State Bank.
J.W. Denison, a Baptist minister, owned 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) in Harrison and Crawford counties. [2] He offered to build a courthouse, hotel, and store if the site was named the county seat. His offer was accepted and the place was called Denison. [3] The first courthouse was a clay structure completed in 1859.
Polk County is the most densely populated county at 864/sq mi (333.5/km 2), an increase in density from 2010 when it was 655.5/sq mi (253.08/km 2). [7] Polk County contains the state's capital and largest city, Des Moines. In addition, Iowa has one of the smallest percentages of counties whose boundaries are dictated by natural means, the vast ...