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Decorah is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of the Minnesota-Iowa border. It is the northernmost major community located along U.S. Route 52 in Iowa . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.04 square miles (18.23 km 2 ), of which 7.01 square miles (18.16 km 2 ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0. ...
The Decorah Woolen Mill (1867, 1920), the only mill left in the district, and the Steyer Opera House (1870, 1875) are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The brick pavers on Court Street count as the contributing structure.
North Winneshiek Community School District was in the county, [17] until it merged with Decorah CSD on July 1, 2018. [18] The Decorah district and the Mabel-Canton Public Schools in Minnesota have an agreement where people who live in the Decorah district but closer to the Mabel-Canton schools than to Decorah schools can enroll in Mabel-Canton ...
The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Combination Depot is a historic building located in Decorah, Iowa, United States.After the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, later the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, choose a different route for their north–south mainline, community leaders convinced them to build a spur to Decorah.
The Decorah Municipal Bathhouse and Swimming Pool is located in Decorah, Iowa, United States. Edward Novak of the Charles Altfillisch architectural firm in Decorah designed the facility in the Art Moderne and the International Style. The project was a partnership between the local government and the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Geological map and cross-section of the Decorah area. The Winneshiek Shale is a thin and geologically homogeneous package of dark grey to greenish-brown sandy shale.Drill core data has estimated a maximum thickness of 38 meters, [1] though in most areas its thickness is only about 18–27 meters. [3]
The Decorah crater, also called the Decorah impact structure, is a possible impact crater located on the east side of the city of Decorah in Iowa, United States. It is thought to have been caused by a meteor about 200 metres (660 ft) wide which struck during the Middle Ordovician Period, circa 470 million years ago.
Decorah Ice Cave State Preserve has one of the largest ice caves in the Midwestern United States. [2] It consists of a 3-acre (1.2 ha) parcel of land at the edge of Barbara Barnhart VanPeenen Memorial Park in the northern portion of the city of Decorah , in Winnesheik County , Iowa .