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Iowa Highway 150
Iowa Highway 150 (Iowa 150) is an state highway (Iowa), state highway in eastern and northeastern Iowa. It begins at U.S. Route 218 (US 218) in Vinton, Iowa, Vinton and ends at U.S. Route 52 in Iowa, US 52 and Iowa Highway 24, Iowa 24 in Calmar, Iowa, Calmar. From Vinton, it heads north and east towards Urbana, Iowa, Urbana where it meets Interstate 380 (Iowa), Interstate 380 (I-380) and Iowa 27, the Avenue of the Saints highway. At Independence, Iowa, Independence, it intersects U.S. Route 20 in Iowa, US 20 on the south side of town. Further north, it concurrency (road), converges with Iowa Highway 3, Iowa 3 in Oelwein, Iowa, Oelwein. As it traverses through the east-central part of the state, Iowa 150 mostly passes through farmland where acreages and farmsteads dot the landscape. Through the towns along the route, the highway generally brings traffic through the central business districts of each town. In Fayette, Iowa, Fayette however, ...
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Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ...
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Oelwein, Iowa
Oelwein is a city in Fayette County, Iowa, Fayette County, Iowa, United States. The population was 5,920 at the time of the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, a decrease of 11.5% from the 2000 census. The largest community in Fayette County, it is located at the junction of State Highways Iowa Highway 3, 3 and Iowa Highway 150, 150. History The town of Oelwein was laid out in a corn field purchased from pioneer settler Gustav Oelwein on the coming of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railroad (later called the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Rock Island) in 1872. Some years later the two dividing streets of Oelwein were named after his sons, Frederick and Charles. Oelwein's present site was entered in 1852 by J. B. Burch. The hamlet of Oelwein was instituted in 1873, and was incorporated as a town in 1888, with Dr. Israel Pattison becoming its first mayor. The town suffered its chief setback in 1887, when nearly all of the old Main Street business di ...
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Hazleton, Iowa
Hazleton is a city in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. The population was 713 at the time of the 2020 census. History The original town was established in 1853 when E. W. Tenney opened a store. A post office opened soon after and was named "Hazelton", because the community was in a hazelnut grove. When the railway came, it missed the town by a mile, so the town was moved to the railway. The current site of "Hazleton" was established in 1873, and incorporated in 1883. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2020 census As of the census of 2020, there were 713 people, 311 households, and 174 families residing in the city. The population density was 892.0 inhabitants per square mile (344.4/km2). There were 357 housing units at an average density of 446.6 per square mile (172.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 93.4% White, 0.6% Black or African American, 0.1% Native Ameri ...
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Independence Motor Speedway
Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of a dependent territory or colony. The commemoration of the independence day of a country or nation celebrates when a country is free from all forms of colonialism; free to build a country or nation without any interference from other nations. Definition Whether the attainment of independence is different from revolution has long been contested, and has often been debated over the question of violence as legitimate means to achieving sovereignty. In general, revolutions aim only to redistribute power with or without an element of emancipation, such as in democratization ''within'' a state, which as such may remain unaltered. For example, the Mexican Revolution (1910) chiefly refers to a multi-factional conflict that eventually led to a new ...
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Arch Bridge
An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its structural load, loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side, and partially into a vertical load on the arch supports. A viaduct (a long bridge) may be made from a series of arches, although other more economical structures are typically used today. History Possibly the oldest existing arch bridge is the Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean Arkadiko Bridge in Greece from about 1300 BC. The stone corbel arch bridge is still used by the local populace. The well-preserved Hellenistic Eleutherna Bridge has a triangular corbel arch. The 4th century BC Rhodes Footbridge rests on an early voussoir arch. Although true arches were already known by the Etruscans and ancient Greeks, the Ancient Rome, Romans were – as with the Vault (architecture), vault and the dome – the first to fully realize the ...
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Wapsipinicon River
The Wapsipinicon River (, locally known as the Wapsi) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 starting near the southeastern border of Minnesota and running through northeastern Iowa in the United States. It drains a rural farming region of rolling hills and bluffs north of Waterloo and Cedar Rapids. Course It rises in Mower County, Minnesota and enters Iowa in northern Mitchell County. It flows generally southeast across rural Chickasaw, Bremer, and Buchanan counties, past Independence and Anamosa. Along its lower it turns east, forming the boundary between Clinton and Scott counties. It joins the Mississippi from the west approximately southwest of Clinton. It defines the western boundary of the Driftless Area. While the Wapsi has a soft, recent catchment, the Driftless, to the east and north, tumbles down to the Mississippi i ...
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Iowa Highway 101
Iowa Highway 150 (Iowa 150) is an state highway in eastern and northeastern Iowa. It begins at U.S. Route 218 (US 218) in Vinton and ends at US 52 and Iowa 24 in Calmar. From Vinton, it heads north and east towards Urbana where it meets Interstate 380 (I-380) and Iowa 27, the Avenue of the Saints highway. At Independence, it intersects US 20 on the south side of town. Further north, it converges with Iowa 3 in Oelwein. As it traverses through the east-central part of the state, Iowa 150 mostly passes through farmland where acreages and farmsteads dot the landscape. Through the towns along the route, the highway generally brings traffic through the central business districts of each town. In Fayette however, the highway bypasses the downtown area. Between Fayette and West Union, part of the route forms the western leg of the River Bluffs Scenic Byway, which passes through Iowa's "Little Switzerland" region. The Iowa 150 d ...
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Wapsipinicon River Bridge
The Wapsipinicon River Bridge is a historic structure located in Independence, Iowa, United States. It spans the Wapsipinicon River for . The Buchanan County Board of Supervisors contracted with the Miller-Taylor Construction Company from Waterloo, Iowa, to build the new bridge on the south side of Independence for $37,680. However, high water created problems during construction, and the bridge was completed in January 1927 for $57,530. It replaced an earlier two-span iron truss bridge. This bridge is a concrete filled spandrel arch bridge with four spans. It was designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, and continues to carry vehicle traffic. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. There is a similar bridge upstream in Independence that was built in 1918. See also *List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in ...
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Cedar River (Iowa River)
The Cedar River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 13, 2011 river in Minnesota and Iowa. It is a tributary of the Iowa River, which flows to the Mississippi River. The Cedar River takes its name from the red cedar (''Juniperus virginiana'') trees growing there, and was originally called 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 was still called) was an important commercial waterway. The surrounding region is known officially as the Cedar River Valley, though it is more commonly referred to simply as the Cedar Valley. The stream is young geologically, and only in places where the glacial material has been removed is the underlying bedrock exposed. Geography The headwaters of the Cedar River are located in Dodge County, Minnesota, consisting of a west fork and middle fork approximat ...
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Benton County Courthouse (Iowa)
The Benton County Courthouse, located in Vinton, Iowa, United States, was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as a part of the County Courthouses in Iowa Thematic Resource. The courthouse is the fourth building the county has used for court functions and county administration. History Benton County's first courthouse was a log structure, but it did not have a roof or floor when they started to use it. The court met in a log home during inclement weather. Because of a dispute over the location of the county seat, the second courthouse stood unfinished until 1852 when the main floor of the frame structure was finished to provide space for a courtroom. County officers occupied two rooms in the unfinished second floor before the building was destroyed by fire the following year. The county records were rescued by three men, one of whom died as a result of his injuries in the fire. The county's third courthouse was built at a cost of $13,00 ...
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T Intersection
A three-way junction (or three-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms. A Y junction (or Y intersection) generally has three arms of equal size coming at an acute or obtuse angle to each other; while a T junction (or T intersection) also has three arms, but one of the arms is generally a smaller road joining a larger road at right angle. Right-of-way Some three-way junctions are controlled by traffic lights, while others rely upon drivers to obey right-of-way rules, which vary from place to place: *In some jurisdictions, chiefly in European countries except the U.K. and Ireland, a driver is always obliged to yield right-of-way for every vehicle oncoming from the right at a junction without traffic signals and priority signs (including T junctions). *In other jurisdictions (mainly in the U.K., USA, Australia and Taiwan), a driver turning in a three-way junction must yield for every vehicle approaching the junction (on the way straight ahead) and, if the ...
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Iowa Highway 130
Iowa Highway 130 (Iowa 130) is a state highway (Iowa), state highway that traverses northwestern Scott County, Iowa, Scott County and eastern Cedar County, Iowa, Cedar County in eastern Iowa. It begins in Tipton, Iowa, Tipton at Iowa Highway 38, Iowa 38 and ends at Interstate 80 in Iowa, Interstate 80 (I-80) / U.S. Route 61 in Iowa, U.S. Highway 61 (US 61) in Davenport, Iowa, Davenport. The highway was designated in 1969 as part of a 1969 Iowa highway renumbering, renumbering of state highways throughout the state. From 1949 to the renumbering, the route was part of Iowa Highway 150, Iowa 150; before that, it was known as Iowa 74. Route description Iowa Highway 130 begins in Tipton, Iowa, Tipton at an intersection with Iowa Highway 38. It proceeds eastward from Tipton and shortly before Bennett, Iowa, Bennett, it turns south to enter town. From Bennett, it goes east, turning southeast to go through New Liberty, Iowa, New Liberty. It continues so ...
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