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The Olmsted Family Farmhouse, also known as the Olmsted-Urban House, is an historic building located in Urbandale, Iowa, United States.Leander and Charlotte Olmsted from Auburn, New York acquired 80 acres (32 ha) of land in Polk County, Iowa in 1867. [2]
Urbandale is located in the northwest part of the Des Moines Metro Area at the intersections of Interstates 35 and 80, and Iowa Highway 141.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.94 square miles (56.82 km 2), of which 21.92 square miles (56.77 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2) is water.
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An ice cream shop in Ankeny is scooping out new flavors and ice cream for breakfast as it celebrates a big anniversary. Uptown Dairy in Ankeny, at 617 S.W. Third St. in the Uptown neighborhood ...
It serves a portion of the Urbandale city limits, [2] and is entirely in Polk County. [ 3 ] In January 2018 the district presented a plan to replace four elementary schools built in the 1950s and 1960s-Jensen, Olmsted, Rolling Green and Valerius-with two new buildings.
Buccaneer Arena is a 3,461-seat, with standing room for an additional 700, multi-purpose arena in Urbandale, Iowa, that is home to the Des Moines Buccaneers ice hockey team in the United States Hockey League. Before the Bucs began playing in 1980, the International Hockey League's Des Moines Oak Leafs and Des Moines Capitols franchise played here.
On November 2, 2016, Justin Martin, an Urbandale police officer, was killed shortly after 1:00 a.m. in Urbandale, located about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) northwest of Des Moines. Officers responding to a 1:06 report of shots being fired found him dead in his patrol car.
Until 1937, students wishing to pursue a high school education traveled to other cities, as Urbandale did not have high school facilities. The first year of high school education in Urbandale was the 1936–1937 school year. [4] A gymnasium with a stage was completed in 1940 with Works Progress Administration funding. [4]