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FIPS code. 19-26355. GNIS feature ID. 0456462. Fairbank is a city in Buchanan and Fayette counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,111 at the time of the 2020 census.
Congressional district. 1st. Website. www.buchanancountyiowa.org. Wapsipinicon River Bridge. Buchanan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,565. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Independence. [ 2 ] The county was created in 1837 and was named in honor of Senator James Buchanan, the 15th ...
48.8/sq mi (18.8/km 2) FIPS code. 19-91266 [ 2] GNIS feature ID. 0467806. Fairbank Township is one of sixteen townships in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,774.
Noah Troyer (February 18, 1831 - March 2, 1886), was an Amish Mennonite farmer and " sleeping preacher," who preached while in a state of trance. [1][2] Noah Troyer was born in Ohio in 1831. He married Fannie Mast, a resident of Holmes County, Ohio, and they had six children together. [citation needed] In 1875, they moved to Johnson County ...
The Amish believe large families are a blessing from God. Amish rules allow marrying only between members of the Amish Church. The elderly do not go to a retirement facility; they remain at home. As time has passed, the Amish have felt pressures from the modern world; their traditional rural way of life is becoming more different from the ...
UTC-5 (CDT) ZIP codes. 50629, 50662. GNIS feature ID. 0468467. Oran Township is one of twenty townships in Fayette County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 760. [1]
The Amish (/ ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described by ...
The Swartzentruber Amish are an Old Order Amish group that is about as conservative as the Nebraska Amish but much more numerous and therefore much better known. They formed as the result of a division that occurred among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in 1917. The bishop who broke away was Sam E. Yoder.