I should have said something earlier. I should have said it when I made a post about it.
The two Nebraska students who visited “all 939” towns in Iowa this summer — and got another article in the Register — MISSED TWO OF THEM. But I can’t tell them directly, because I don’t do Facebook, and there’s no way for me to know which two fell off their list.
The 2020 census numbers, directly from the State Data Center, show that on April 1, 2020, there were 942 incorporated places in the state. Pioneer, in Humboldt County, was formally disincorporated in August, so right now there are 941 incorporated places, not 939. This number matches previous posts I’ve done about cities that disincorporated.
I cannot link to the 2020 population list because the State Data Center does an interactive thing that requires changing parameters. (It should not be hard to get raw data!) I can, however, link to my PDF from 2011 that clearly shows there were 947 cities at that time. That’s the list I used, crossed with the state map, on my quest that ended in 2016. Six have been discontinued since.
But I have to say something somewhere, because there are 941 cities in Iowa in 2021, no matter what their book title says.