“So that’s why you get those weird offsets,” Landis said. This 1855 map of Iowa shows Bancroft County along the state's northern border. The county was eliminated and merged into Kossuth ...

Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January ... in 1673 and providing the first European maps of the Upper Mississippi River. Clayton County’s Marquette is named after him.

The 99-county tour appeared to work for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 cycle as he placed first in the Iowa GOP caucuses ... we will no longer have the map dictate where we go, but now ...

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THIS IS THE COUNTY SEAT OF KOSSUTH COUNTY IN NORTHERN IOWA. NOW, YOU CAN SEE ALL 99 OF IOWA’S COUNTIES ON THIS MAP. FEELS LIKE IT’S 30 YEARS AGO AND I’M DOING ONE BECAUSE SO IS THE LARGEST ...