A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names

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Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1, 188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents, a retail business, an annual celebration or festival, a school, church, or cemetery, a building on the National Register of Historic Places, a zip-coded post office, or an association with a public recreation site. If a town’ s name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name, if a name’ s provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations. He also includes information about the state’ s name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of ghost towns. The entries range from the counties of Adair to Wright and from the towns of Abingdon to Zwingle, from Iowa’ s oldest town, Dubuque, starting as a mining camp in the 1780s and incorporated in 1841, to its newest, Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001.