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The area labeled 'Caldwell's Camp' was a Potawatomi village led by Sauganash. This was later developed as Council Bluffs. [11] These tribes moved to Iowa during the historic period: Potawatomi; Ojibwe (Chippewa) Odawa (Ottawa) The forced relocation of tribes in the 19th century from east of the Mississippi led to some eastern tribes living in ...
Iowa City. Iowa River; Upper Iowa River; Algona; Anamosa – named after the legend of a local Native American girl; Battle Creek – named for a skirmish between Native American tribes near the stream.
Coralville is a suburb of Iowa City and part of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coralville incorporated as a city in 1873. The city's name comes from the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River. 26 North Liberty: 20,479 Johnson: The North Liberty area was first settled in 1838 by John Gaylor and Alonzo C. Dennison.
The Iowa, Missouria, and Otoe tribes were all once part of the Ho-Chunk people, [4] and they are all Chiwere language-speaking peoples. They left their ancestral homelands in Southern Wisconsin for Eastern Iowa, a state that bears their name. In 1837, the Iowa were moved from Iowa to reservations in Brown County, Kansas, and Richardson County ...
Norwegian immigration to Iowa began in 1840 [52] with settlement at Sugar Creek [90] in southeastern Iowa, and continued with immigration to northern Iowa in the late 1840s. [91] The Sugar Creek colony in Lee County was the result of a failed Missouri colony, and has its origins in the second Norwegian colony in the United States, that of Fox ...
On this map of Iowa, Keokuk's Reserve is the green section within the Black Hawk Purchase, the larger yellow area on the right. Keokuk's Reserve was a parcel of land in the present-day U.S. state of Iowa that was retained by the Sauk and Fox tribes in 1832 in the aftermath of the Black Hawk War. The tribes stayed on the reservation only until ...
The smallest county (Dickinson) has a land area of 381 sq mi (990 km 2), while the largest (Kossuth) has an area 973 sq mi (2,520 km 2). 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 ]
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Iowa, arranged in alphabetical order. This list contains a number of historical communities which no longer exist, and also includes a number of disincorporated cities.