When I wrote my resolution to visit every Iowa town, I noted (and then had to revise) the number of incorporated places “as of this writing” — and there was a reason for that.
Center Junction in Jones County had a meeting about dissolving Monday night, and decided against it. Had the town voted otherwise, it would have been the third Iowa community in three years to disincorporate, following Mount Sterling and Millville.
It turns out that residents of Luther, in Boone County, filed a petition for disincorporation last September, but aside from that Boone News-Republican article and the one about the ensuing city council meeting I haven’t found anything to show this has moved forward.
More towns may have the same discussion. Iowa DNR regulations about sewer system upgrades are starting to bite tiny communities, including Luther. Throw in the threat of closed post offices — a threat that, right now, appears to have diminished and been replaced with drastically reduced hours — and the trickle of discontinuations could continue.