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712. FIPS code. 19-70410. GNIS feature ID. 0461387. Website. City of Sanborn. Sanborn is a city in O'Brien County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,392 at the time of the 2020 census.
Sanborn maps are detailed maps of U.S. cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally published by The Sanborn Map Company (Sanborn), the maps were created to allow fire insurance companies to assess their total liability in urbanized areas of the United States. Since they contain detailed information about properties and ...
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English: A 1901 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map cropped to show the "Piety Hill" area of Des Moines Iowa, United States. The Central Church of Christ (blue, lower left), St. Paul's Episcopal Church (blue, lower right), the Jewish Synagogue (pink, center), First Baptist Church (blue, center right), and Central Presbyterian (top, pink).
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
In early 1900, the Chicago and North Western began operating over the north half of the Lost Creek Railway as they began constructing their branch to Buxton, Iowa, opened in 1901. [42] [43] [44] A photo of Lost Creek Shaft 2, opened in 1901, does not show any dual-gauge trackage. [45] Shaft 2 was the site of Iowa's worst mine disaster in 1902 ...
Divided. ← US 13. → US 15. U.S. Route 14 or U.S. Highway 14 (US 14), an east–west route, is one of the original United States Numbered Highways of 1926. It currently has a length of about 1,445 miles (2,326 km), for much of which it runs roughly parallel to Interstate 90 (I-90). The highway's eastern terminus is in Chicago, Illinois.