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May 30, 1974 (Des Moines: Polk: Training site for black officers in World War I. 8: George M. Verity: George M. Verity (towboat): December 20, 1989 (Keokuk: Lee: One of three surviving steam-powered towboats in the United States, this ship pioneered on upper Mississippi in a certain way, leading to large private industry.
Three cities (New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston) have enough listings to warrant lists separate from their respective states. A small number of designations have been made outside the 50 states. Most of these appear in United States possessions.
This site is located on the St. Croix River upstream of Stillwater, Minnesota. It was established by Stillwater lumber barons, including Isaac Staples, in 1856 after the demise of the original St. Croix Boom Company, which had operated a boom further upstream near Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota. Staples and others purchased the Boom Company and ...
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Ancient River Warren Channel: 1966: Big Stone: mixed- state, private A channel cut by the Ancient River Warren during the Ice Age.
At its most inclusive, in the United States the region cuts a wide swath from the twin cities of Minneapolis–Saint Paul in Minnesota in the west, south to St. Louis and Louisville, Kentucky, and east to Rochester, New York; in Canada, it continues northeasterly to Quebec City. This broader region had an estimated population of 59,144,461 as ...
Iowa: Private One of the few essentially natural glacial pothole lakes remaining in Iowa. Cayler Prairie: 1965: Dickinson: State An example of the increasingly rare virgin prairie grassland. Cold Water Cave: 1987
The Burlington Way, also known as the Orange and White Way, [16] was a 2,000-mile-long (3,200 km) auto trail that ran from New Orleans to Ely, Minnesota. Through Iowa, the trail entered the state from Illinois at Burlington and exited into Minnesota near Cresco; it traveled 409 miles (658 km) through eastern Iowa by way of Iowa City, Cedar ...
Map of the United States with Iowa highlighted. 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]