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    Steamboat Rock is a city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 264 at the time of the 2020 census. Steamboat Rock was platted in 1855...
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  • Steamboat Rock can refer to some places in the United States: Steamboat Rock, Iowa, a town in Hardin County, Iowa Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building...
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    The Iowa River Railroad (IARR) operates freight service from Ackley, Iowa to end of track 1.4 miles south of U.S. Highway 20, north of Steamboat Rock, Iowa...
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    challenged KENTA for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship in Steamboat Rock, Iowa for World League Wrestling with Noah officials and Harley Race present...
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  • Ackley Geneva Wellsburg Steamboat Rock (AGWSR) Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Ackley, Iowa. It occupies sections...
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  • Ripple is a steamboat that transported people and items. It landed in Iowa City on June 20, 1841. The steamboat was the first one to sail to Iowa City at...
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    Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building, also known as the Steamboat Rock Community School, is a historic building located in Steamboat Rock, Iowa...
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  • Ray Taylor (politician) (category People from Hardin County, Iowa)
    politician in the state of Iowa. Taylor was born in Steamboat Rock, Iowa. He attended Baylor University and the University of Northern Iowa and was a farmer and...
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    Travis Fulton (category Mixed martial artists from Iowa)
    martial arts history (255). Fulton was born in Waterloo, Iowa and raised in Cedar Falls, Iowa. His father worked for the John Deere company and was eventually...
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    four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern...
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  • 1856, a steamboat collided with the Rock Island bridge, built by the Rock Island Railroad, between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa. It was...
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    Belmond. The Iowa then proceeds roughly in a southeast direction, passing through the city of Iowa Falls, through a scenic valley to Steamboat Rock, then through...
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    connecting Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. The Iowa Interstate Railroad uses the upper deck of the bridge for its ex-Chicago and Rock Island Railroad...
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    the Rock River. Searstown was annexed by Rock Island in 1915. This area has been a fortuitous place first for settlement and then for steamboat traffic...
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  • state of Iowa are owned and maintained by the Iowa Department of Transportation. 2012 Volume of Traffic on the Primary Road System of Iowa (PDF) (Report)...
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    on April 22, 1856. In 1857, the steamboat Effie Afton ran into the Rock Island's Mississippi River Bridge. The steamboat was overcome by a fire, which also...
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    Wellsburg-Steamboat Rock merged districts to become AGWSR. The next membership change came in 2002 when Green Mountain–Garwin (GMG) departed for the Iowa Star...
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    the Red Cedar River by the Meskwaki. The first Mississippi steamboat reached Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1844, and during the next decade, the Red Cedar (as it...
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    cars on the route from Chicago to the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. Steamboats (or at least boats with an appropriate appearance) then traveled up...
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    Herbert Quick (category Novelists from Iowa)
    American writer and politician. Born October 23, 1861, near Steamboat Rock, Grundy County, Iowa, to Martin and Margaret Coleman Quick, he was afflicted with...
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    The district formed on July 1, 2001, with the merger of the Wellsburg-Steamboat Rock Community School District and the Ackley–Geneva Community School District...
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    Iowa's 5th State Senate district is located in Northwestern Iowa. It is currently composed of Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth and Palo Alto counties and part...
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    of Linn County, Iowa, United States. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Iowa. The city lies on...
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    Rock Island, on the Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois. It is home to the United States Army First Army Headquarters...
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    and Iowa City, and the acquisition of other lines by the Rock Island Railroad, resulted in Davenport becoming a commercial railroad hub. Steamboat companies...
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    Mississippi and Missouri Railroad (category Defunct Iowa railroads)
    bridge opened in 1856, a steamboat hit the bridge and steamboat companies sued to have the bridge dismantled. The M&M and Rock Island hired private attorney...
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    The 16th District of the Iowa Senate is located in central Iowa, and is currently composed of part of Polk and Dallas Counties. Claire Celsi is the senator...
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    The 9th District of the Iowa Senate is located in southwestern Iowa, and is currently composed of Adams, Cass, Montgomery, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, and...
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    65 or over. Ackley Alden Buckeye Eldora Hubbard Iowa Falls New Providence Owasa Radcliffe Steamboat Rock Union Whitten Garden City Cleves Gifford Alden...
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  • completed, a steamboater crashed the Effie Afton steamboat into the bridge. The owner of the Effie Afton, John Hurd, filed a lawsuit against The Rock Island...
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