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Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997, [2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. [ 5 ]
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of 2010, there are 943 incorporated cities in the U.S. state of Iowa. According to the 2020 United States Census, Iowa has 3,190,369 inhabitants and 55,857.13 square miles (144,669.3 km 2) of land. [1] Iowa is divided into 99 counties and has 943 cities. Every incorporated place in ...
The Jordan Aquifer is the largest source of groundwater, extending from northeast Iowa to south central Iowa, and is ultimately the source of much of Iowa's agricultural and industrial water. In addition to pollution threats, the aquifer is threatened by overuse in well-source irrigation, ethanol production, and the diminishment of resupply ...
Black Hawk County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 131,144, [1] making it Iowa's fifth-most populous county. The county seat is Waterloo. [2] Black Hawk County is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls metropolitan area. [3]
Blackwater River: a tributary of the Chowan River in Virginia; Blackwater River: a major river in the western Florida panhandle; Blackwater River, West Virginia: Located in the Blackwater Canyon in Tucker County. Blackwater Falls, a five-story waterfall, is located along this river with rapids ranging from Class III-V+.
Barringer Slough (red) on landform map of Iowa. Barringer Slough is a rich wetland area located in northeast Clay County in northwestern Iowa . This area is a reconstructed remnant of the Des Moines lobe , a region of Iowa which was once covered by interconnected prairie wetlands.
Iowa (/ ˈ aɪ. ə w ə / ⓘ EYE-ə-wə) [7] [8] [9] is a state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north.
Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.The population was 7,687 at the 2020 census. [2] The city is named for the large lake on which it is located. . It is the home of a number of marinas, state parks and tourism-related business