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“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 ...

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 ...

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.

“With our state’s small population and our 99 counties, we rank near the bottom of all states, with the least number of ...

For the past four years, Sullivan has been running a mile in every county on his Iowa tour. “My friend from 2018 asked me ‘why haven’t you run these?’ I was a runner for years,” Sullivan said. “So I ...