Poweshiek Area Development

What information about the Poweshiek area is currently available on the World Wide Web?

There's a page listing the staff of Iowa State University's Poweshiek County Extension Office in Montezuma and offering directions on how to get there. In addition, Denise Schwab, an ISU extension livestock field specialist for Poweshiek County (and seven others), maintains a front-door page on the World Wide Web.

J. R. Burrows & Company provide a ``Merchants' Bank'' page, containing a biography of Louis Sullivan, a description of his architecture, and four photographs of the Brenton Bank in Grinnell.

Grinnell College has an extensive WWW site.

The Back Alley Deli and Varsity News Stand has its own front-door page.

The Church of Christ provides a listing for its Poweshiek County church and for its representatives in Grinnell and Montezuma.

The Poweshiek County Soil and Water Conservation District maintains a front-door page, giving the location of its offices, a list of its personnel, a list of upcoming events, and various facts about water and agriculture in Poweshiek County.

The Iowa Secretary of State supplies a list of Poweshiek County officials and a small amount of statistical information about each county in the state, as well as population statistics for all incorporated towns and cities.

The Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, an organization funded by NASA, provides an interactive tool for constructing a variety of demographic maps of the county, based on 1990 census information.

The Iowa PROfiles project's Poweshiek County page includes a map of the county and links to some other sources of economic and demographic data (mainly from the Bureau of Economic Analysis) -- for example, a summary and analysis of 1992-1993 data about personal income and earnings.

The League of Women Voters of Iowa has made available a database of 1994 general election results, broken down by county. IBM provides a similar table of results in Presidential elections, 1940-1992.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette gives the names of the county leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties.

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created December 28, 1995
last revised December 28, 1995

John David Stone (stone@math.grin.edu)