Bauer, Iowa

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Bauer, Iowa
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 41°12′14″N93°18′26″W / 41.20389°N 93.30722°W / 41.20389; -93.30722
Country United States
State Iowa
County Marion County
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID454390 [1]

Bauer is an unincorporated community in Marion County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Geography

It is located in the western part of Dallas Township, in the northwest corner of section 20. [2]

History

Bauer was founded in the 1800s; no plat was ever recorded. By 1919, Bauer was "a little hamlet in the western part of Dallas Township, about twenty miles southwest of Knoxville". [2]

Bauer was named for a local settler. It grew up around St. Joseph's Catholic Church, [2] which was founded in Bauer in 1853 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. St. Joseph's Catholic School of Bauer was founded in 1904. By 1919, it had 72 students. [3]

The community's population was 20 in 1890, [4] 25 in 1900, [5] and 20 in 1920. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bauer". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved August 10, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 History of Marion County, Iowa, and Its People, Volume 1. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. 1915. pp. 159–160.
  3. ↑ Iowa Educational Directory. State of Iowa. 1919. p. 352.
  4. ↑ Cram, George Franklin (1887). Cram's Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical, Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts ; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States. G.F. Cram. p. 368.
  5. ↑ Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition. J. R. Gray & Company. 1902. pp. 203–207.
  6. ↑ Premier Atlas of the World: Containing Maps of All Countries of the World, with the Most Recent Boundary Decisions, and Maps of All the States, Territories, and Possessions of the United States with Population Figures from the Latest Official Census Reports, Also Data of Interest Concerning International and Domestic Political Questions. Rand McNally & Company. 1925. pp. 188–190.
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