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Due to its location to Cedar Lake, the town became known as Cedar Falls and by 1909 was host to a grocery, hotel, and schoolhouse. [2] Seattle City Light began operations in the community to provide power to Seattle with the build of a dam outside the town in 1912 on the Cedar River.
A symposium was held in 2007 in Decorah, Iowa, "to share the results of research, management and monitoring work in the Driftless Area." [27] The Nature Conservancy is also interested. Iowa Pleistocene snail Northern monkshood. The Driftless Area contains more than half of the world's algific talus slopes, a type of small, isolated ecosystem. [28]
Decorah is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of the Minnesota-Iowa border. It is the northernmost major community located along U.S. Route 52 in Iowa . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.04 square miles (18.23 km 2 ), of which 7.01 square miles (18.16 km 2 ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0. ...
U.S. Geological Survey aerial resistivity map of the Decorah, Iowa area, showing the Decorah crater. A much older meteorite strike created the Decorah crater during the Middle Ordovician Period, 470 million years ago. The crater is estimated to be 3.5 miles (5.6 km) in diameter, covered by Winneshiek Shale.
Blks. 500-100 W. Water, 100-200 E. Water, 100 Washington, 100 Winnebago, parts of W. Main, Court & W. Day Spring, Decorah, Iowa: Coordinates: Area: 20.1 acres (8.1 ha) Architectural style: Late Victorian Late 19th and Early 20th century American Movements Art Deco
The Broadway–Phelps Park Historic District is located in Decorah, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The original boundaries of the historic district is composed of seven blocks of a residential area and the city's oldest park. It is located on a prominent hill in the heart of Decorah.
The 1980s and 1990s were a busy time for road construction in the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metro area. Waterloo mayor Leo P. Rooff in the 1970s declined extending I-380 to Cedar Falls by using the Federal Highway Administration's interstate substitution program; money that was earmarked for interstate highway construction could be used for other ...
Cedar Falls is home to the University of Northern Iowa, a public university. Cedar Falls along with neighboring city Waterloo, Iowa are the two principal municipalities within the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. This area is known locally as the "Cedar Valley," due to the Cedar River that traverses the vicinity.