Lanyon | |
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Coordinates: 42°13′20.92″N94°11′42.86″W / 42.2224778°N 94.1952389°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Iowa |
County | Webster |
Elevation | 1,138 ft (347 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP codes | 50544 |
Lanyon is an unincorporated community in Lost Grove Township in Webster County, Iowa.
It is located 17 miles south of the county seat of Fort Dodge, 2.65 miles south and one mile west of Harcourt (on U.S. Route 169), and 3.3 miles north and 4.5 miles west of Boxholm. Lanyon consists of seven blocks, bounded on the north by 390th Street, and on the east by Lanyon Avenue.
Lanyon's elevation is 1,171 feet (357 m). [1]
The community was founded by Swedish emigrants, [2] part of a migration from Knox County, Illinois in the 1860s. [3]
It is located on the diagonal route of a former interurban railroad between Boone and Rockwell City, which was used by the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad until the 1960s. [4] A station at Layton was opened in 1899 to serve a railway laid that year by the Marshalltown and Dakota Railroad Company to carry coal mined near Fraser northwest to connections at Gowrie. [5] A Lanyon Post Office was established in 1900, [6] the Lanyon Mutual Telephone Company was established in 1903, and the Bank of Lanyon, Lanyon Well Company, and (until the early 1960s) Lanyon Consolidated School. Lanyon is now within the Prairie Valley Community School District.
It includes the Evangelical Covenant Church, founded in 1877 and located in Lanyon since 1909.
Previously it was in the Prairie Valley Community School District, [7] which formed on July 1, 1993 with the merger of the Cedar Valley Community School District and the Prairie Community School District. [8] Prairie Valley CSD merged into the Southeast Valley Community School District in 2023. This district includes the Southeast Valley Middle School in Burnside and Southeast Valley High School in Gowrie. [9] [9]
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