Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census,the population was 19,485. The county seat is Maquoketa.
Dubuque County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census,the population was 99,266,making it the eighth-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Dubuque. The county is named for Julien Dubuque,the first European settler of Iowa.
Hopkinton is a city in Delaware County,Iowa,United States. The population was 622 at the time of the 2020 census.
Andrew is a small city in central Jackson County,Iowa,United States. The population was 380 at the 2020 census.
Bellevue is a city in eastern Jackson County,Iowa,United States. The city lies along the Mississippi River and next to Bellevue State Park. In 2020 its population was 2,363;up from a count of 2,191 at the 2010 Census,making it the second-largest and only growing city in Jackson County.
Maquoketa is a city in Jackson County,Iowa,United States. Located on the Maquoketa River,it is the county seat of Jackson County.
James Allen Nussle is an American businessman and retired politician who has been president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association since 2014. Nussle served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007 and was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election,losing to Democrat Chet Culver. He was then appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in 2007 by President George W. Bush,an office he retained until 2009.
The Maquoketa River is a tributary of the Mississippi River,approximately 150 miles (240 km) long,in northeastern Iowa in the United States. Its watershed covers 1,694 square miles (4,387 km2) within a rural region of rolling hills and farmland southwest of Dubuque. It is not to be confused with the Little Maquoketa River,another distinct direct tributary of the Upper Mississippi River meeting the Big River north of Dubuque. The river and its tributaries mark the border of the Driftless Area of Iowa,with the areas east of it not having been covered by ice during the last ice age. Its name derives from Maquaw-Autaw,which means "Bear River" in Meskwaki.
Maquoketa Caves State Park is a state park of Iowa,United States,located in Jackson County. It stands northwest of the city of Maquoketa. In 1991 111 acres (45 ha) on the east side of the park were listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.
Iowa's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Iowa that covers its southeastern part,bordering the states of Illinois and Missouri,and the Mississippi River. The district includes the cities of Davenport,Iowa City,Burlington,and Indianola. Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks is the current U.S. representative. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+3,it is one of the least Republican districts in Iowa,a state with an all-Republican congressional delegation.
Iowa Highway 62 (Iowa 62) is a 19-mile-long (31 km) state highway in eastern Iowa. The highway begins in Maquoketa at Iowa 64,goes through Andrew,and ends in Bellevue at U.S. Highway 52 a few yards (meters) from the Mississippi River. The route has been on the primary highway system since the network was created in 1920. The road was graveled in the late 1920s and paved some 30 years later. It is called the Ansel Briggs Highway in honor of the first governor of Iowa who lived in Andrew during his term in office.
Thomas Ellsworth Martin was an American politician who served as a United States representative and Senator from Iowa. Martin,a Republican,served in Congress for 22 consecutive years,from January 1939 to January 1961.
Iowa Highway 64 (Iowa 64) is a 64-mile-long (103 km) state highway that runs through two counties in east central Iowa. It begins at an interchange with U.S. Route 151 (US 151) in Anamosa and ends at the Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi River near Sabula. It continues through Illinois as Illinois Route 64. The western half of the highway is the Grant Wood Scenic Byway. Originally,Iowa 64 spanned the length of the state and began at the Missouri River in Council Bluffs where it connected to N-64 in Omaha. It headed northeast and east on highways that today are roughly parallel to Interstate 80 (I-80) and US 30. In 1969,however,Iowa 64 was shortened to its current routing.
The 2010 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2010 to elect the governor and lieutenant governor,to serve a four-year term beginning on January 14,2011. In Iowa,the governor and lieutenant governor are elected on the same ballot.
Tabor College was a Christian college in Tabor,Iowa,that operated from 1853 to 1927. It is now defunct.
The Maquoketa Formation is a geologic formation in Illinois,Indiana. Iowa,Kansas,Minnesota,Missouri,and Wisconsin. It preserves mollusk,coral,brachiopod and graptolite fossils dating back to the Darriwilian to Hirnantian stages of the Ordovician period.
Carolyn (Campbell) Pendray born in Mount Pleasant,Iowa,United States,was an educator and politician.
The Maquoketa Public Library is located in Maquoketa,Iowa,United States. The Maquoketa Literary Society was organized as early as 1851,and the Boardman Library Institute was founded in 1885. The community applied to the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a grant to build a free public library,and on March 14,1902,they were awarded $12,500. The total cost of acquiring the property and constructing the building was $15,000,which they raised by public contributions and entertainments. Independence,Iowa architect Harry Netcott designed the Neoclassical building. It is a single-story brick structure that rests on a raised limestone basement. Bedford stone was used for the trim. It features a symmetrical facade,with columns in the Ionic order that frame the portico. The interior features a columned rotunda. It was dedicated on January 19,1904. The Boardman Library Institute merged with the Free Public Library after the new building was completed. The roofline was altered slightly when a new roof was added around the middle of the 20th century.
The 34th District of the Iowa House of Representatives in the state of Iowa.
On July 22,2022,three members of the Schmidt family were murdered in Maquoketa Caves State Park. The assailant,identified as 23-year-old Anthony Orlando Sherwin,later committed suicide by gunshot.
