Enjoy these interesting facts about Iowa.

- The highest double track railroad bridge in the world, the Kate Shelley Bridge, is located at Boone.

- At 16 miles, East Okoboji is the longest natural lake in the state.

- Kalona is the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi River.

- Francis Drake was 66 years old at his inauguration and Iowa's oldest governor.

- Clarion is the only county seat in the exact center of the county.

- Herbert Hoover, a West Branch native, was the 31st president of the United States and the first one born west of the Mississippi.

- Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water. Missouri (& Big Sioux) and Mississippi rivers.

- The highest double track railroad bridge in the world, the Kate Shelley Bridge, is located at Boone.

- Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels.

- Iowa State University is the oldest land grant college in the U.S.A.

- The Ceda r Rapids Museum of Art houses the largest collection of Grant Wood artwork.

- Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque is the world's steepest and shortest railway.

- Campers and motor homes are manufactured in Winnebago County. They're called Winnebago's.

- Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water. Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

- Spirit Lake is the largest glacier-made lake in the state.

- Iowa's oldest continually running theater is in Story City.

- Iowa's longest and highest bridge crosses Lake Red Rock.

- The famous actor John Wayne was born in Winterset on May 26, 1907.

- Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, is the largest cereal company in the world.

- Elk Horn in the largest Danish settlement in the United States.

- Maynard Reece, born in Arnolds Park, is the only artist to win the Federal Duck Stamp competition five times.

- Iowa's only operating antique carousel is located in the city of Story City.

- Knoxville's National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum is the only museum in the country dedicated to preserving the history of sprint car racing.

- Iowa's only fire tower is situated in Yellow River State Forest.

- Sabula is Iowa's only tow n on an island.

- Dubuque is home to the only county courthouse with a gold dome.

- Cornell College is the only school in the nation to have its entire campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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