Ceres most commonly refers to:
Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by pre-Columbian Mound Builder cultures, mostly in the first millennium AD, during the later part of the Woodland period of pre-Columbian North America. Numerous effigy mounds are shaped like animals, including bears and birds.
Clayton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,043. Its county seat is Elkader. The county was established in 1837 and was named in honor of John M. Clayton, United States Senator from Delaware and later Secretary of State under President Zachary Taylor.
Postville is a city in Allamakee and Clayton counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. It lies near the junction of four counties and at the intersection of U.S. Routes 18 and 52 and Iowa Highway 51, with airport facilities in the neighboring communities of Waukon, Decorah, Monona and Prairie du Chien. The population was 2,503 at the time of the 2020 census, up from 2,273 in 2000. The city is in Allamakee County's southwestern corner and the Clayton County's northwestern corner in a quad county, or four-corner region, where four counties intersect. Winneshiek County is just to the west and Fayette County just to the southwest of Postville.
Littleport is an unincorporated community and former city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. After the Volga River flood of May 16, 1999, much of the town was destroyed and most residents moved away. At the 2000 Census, there were 26 residents. As of the 1960 Census, there had been 119 residents. There had been 139 people in 1950 and more than 200 people in 1916. The town was laid out in 1857 by Dennis Quigley and platted on May 21, 1860, but remained of little importance until the coming of the railroad in 1874. The town was not officially incorporated until 1907. Around this time, it had three general stores, a bank, blacksmith shop, Catholic church, German Lutheran church, an independent school district and a creamery. Somewhat later, it also had two taverns. It was officially disincorporated in 2005.
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was the first asteroid discovered, on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily. Originally considered a planet, it was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s after the discovery of dozens of other objects in similar orbits. In 2006, it was reclassified again as a dwarf planet – the only one always inside Neptune's orbit – because, at 940 km (580 mi) in diameter, it is the only asteroid large enough for its gravity to make it plastic and to maintain it as a spheroid. In January 2014, emissions of water vapor were detected around Ceres, creating a tenuous, transient atmosphere known as an exosphere. This was unexpected because asteroids typically do not emit vapor, a hallmark of comets.
Thomas Updegraff was an attorney and five-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from northeastern Iowa. His two periods of service were separated by ten years out of Congress.
Garnavillo Township is a township in Clayton County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,008.
St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church is a former Lutheran Church located in rural Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The church was a part of a village by the name of Ceres. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The property is also known as the Pioneer Rock Church.
Motor is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The townsite is also a nationally recognized historic district listed as a historic site on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The Mederville Bridge is a historic structure located in the unincorporated community of Mederville, Iowa, United States. It spans the Volga River for 156 feet (48 m). This is only one of a few open spandrel arch bridges constructed in Iowa. Designed by the Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, it replaced a covered timber Howe truss bridge. Clayton County rejected all of the original bids to build the structure when they all came in too high. Six companies bid a second time on the project, and F. E. Marsh and Company of Des Moines won. They completed in the bridge in 1918 for $17,454.32. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. On October 2, 2021, it was the site where Kelsey Bergan and Mark Schutte got married.
Watson is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The county seat of Elkader lies approximately 15 miles to the southwest.
Eckards is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. Eckards lies on the Mississippi River, and on Iowa's border with Wisconsin. The county seat of Elkader is located approximately 15 miles to the west.
McGregor Heights is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. McGregor Heights lies on the Mississippi River, and on Iowa's border with Wisconsin. The county seat of Elkader lies 17 miles to the southwest.
Saint Sebald is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. Saint Sebald has one Lutheran church and a cemetery. The county seat of Elkader lies approximately 11 miles to the northeast.
Updegraff is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The county seat of Elkader lies approximately 15 miles to the northwest.
Wood is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The county seat of Elkader lies 14 miles to the north.
Highland is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The county seat of Elkader lies approximately 10 miles to the southeast.
Turkey River is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The community of Turkey River borders the Mississippi River, and the Turkey River. Turkey River also is situated on Iowa's border with Wisconsin.
Thomasville is an unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. Thomasville lies approximately 11 miles away from the county seat of Elkader.
