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Main Street, Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1959. Coon Rapids is a city in Carroll and Guthrie counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,300 at the 2020 census, which is a decrease of 5 from the 2000 census. [4] The small portion of Coon Rapids that lies in Guthrie County is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
August 12, 2009 [1] The Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District is a farm in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States, near the city of Coon Rapids. It is significant as the home of farmer and hybrid corn populizer Roswell Garst. During the 1930s and 1940s, Garst played an active role in the conversion of old-style family farms to ...
Phil Hoffman House, in Mahaska County. Snake Alley, in Des Moines County. Lock and Dam No. 14 Historic District, in Scott County. Grotto of the Redemption, in Palo Alto County. Merchants' National Bank in Poweshiek County, designed by Louis Sullivan. Howes Building, in Clinton County. Fourth Street Historic District, in Woodbury County. County.
11000815 [1] Added to NRHP. November 18, 2011. The Armour Creameries Poultry House, also known as the Armour warehouse and the Garst Company warehouse, is a historic building located in Coon Rapids, Iowa, United States. Jens Jensen sold his regional creamery business to Armour and Company in June 1928. That facility, which is no longer extant ...
In 1931, Garst and Thomas Hi-Bred Corn Company was founded by Roswell Garst and Charley Thomas in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and was "instrumental in promoting the use of hybrid corn." [1] During the Cold War, Garst formed a relationship with Nikita Khrushchev and assisted the USSR in modernizing its corn production.
1363 Burl Ln. / 41.81278°N 94.71444°W / 41.81278; -94.71444. The John Cretsinger House is a historic building located south of Coon Rapids, Iowa, United States. Benjamin and Joseph Tuttle came from Hancock County, Illinois and built this structure in 1853. John Cretsinger built the lean-to kitchen sometime after 1867.
Coon Rapids–Bayard Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Coon Rapids, Iowa. The district serves Coon Rapids and Bayard. Portions of the district are in Carroll, Guthrie, Greene, and Audubon counties. The district was established on July 1, 1988, by the merger of the Bayard and Coon Rapids school districts.
Whiterock Conservancy is a 501 (c) (3) land trust located in west-central Iowa that stewards over 4,000 acres of contiguous land located in the Middle Raccoon River watershed, and an additional 1,000 non-contiguous land located in the Brushy and Middle Raccoon River watersheds. The Whiterock landscape almost exclusively made possible by an ...