The state’s smallest city park is situated in the middle of the road in Hiteman.
Scranton is home to Iowa’s oldest water tower still in service.
Elk Horn in the largest Danish settlement in the United States.
Kalona is the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi River.
Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water.
Strawberry Point is the home of the world’s largest strawberry.
Crystal Lake is home to a statue of the world’s largest bullhead fish.
Spirit Lake is the largest glacier-made lake in the state.
The state flag of Iowa was adopted in 1921 but was originally designed in 1917 by Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhard.
Francis Drake was 66 years old at his inauguration and Iowa’s oldest governor.
Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque is the world’s steepest and shortest railway.
Iowa’s oldest continually running theater is in Story City.
The Sergeant Floyd Monument in Sioux City honors the only man to die during the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Sabula is Iowa’s only town on an island.
Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels.