Category Archives: Maps

Mar 06

Sioux City Highway Chronology revised, expanded, updated

Posted on Friday, March 6, 2015, at 10:22 AM by Jeff

In the decade since I created the Sioux City Highway Chronology page, the amount of resources available for related research has grown substantially. Those resources include PDFs of year-by-year maps previously available only for study in Ames, construction plans/documents, and … Continue reading →

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Feb 23

US 71 to replace IA 196 in Sac County; IA 471 coming

Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

September 17, 2007: Now it’s really the end of IA 196. The route of US 71 in Iowa will undergo a significant change in 2015 and a new state highway will be created. Among the DOT’s public lettings for Jan. … Continue reading →

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Feb 17

New area code for eastern Nebraska

Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2015, at 10:24 AM by Jeff

Nebraska went 60 years with two area codes, but years after an assignment frenzy in other states, three new digits are coming to the eastern part of the state: 531. That includes the entire part of the state bordering Iowa. Unlike … Continue reading →

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Feb 16

KIMT cuts weather map area in half

Posted on Monday, February 16, 2015, at 10:10 AM by Jeff

After I wrote last week about KWWL eliminating some counties on its weather map, Austin Draude e-mailed to say that KIMT has done the same thing. The reduction in the Mason City CBS affiliate’s area sometime late last year*, though, … Continue reading →

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Feb 09

KWWL drops counties from weather map

Posted on Monday, February 9, 2015, at 10:22 AM by Jeff

In the first week of February, maps shown on KWWL during the weather portion of the newscast looked different. The map, which is still squashed vertically*, now only displays 21 counties. Howard, Floyd, Franklin, Jackson, and Mitchell counties are gone, … Continue reading →

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Jan 23

Online Iowa map updated to include new US 34 bridge

Posted on Friday, January 23, 2015, at 10:36 AM by Jeff

Oh ho, what do we have here? The 2015-16 (remember, two-year) state transportation map won’t be out for a month and a half or so, but one change has already been made for the benefit of those who look online. … Continue reading →

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Jan 20

County maps now default to color versions

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, at 10:16 AM by Jeff

Over the past year, the Iowa DOT has worked to spiff up the interface for the iowadotmaps.com domain and the maps linked from there, including the individual county PDF maps. The images of each county and its towns, and their … Continue reading →

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Jan 15

Legislature maps symbolize Iowa’s rural-urban split

Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 10:07 AM by Jeff

With the 2015 Iowa Legislature now in session, it’s a good time to look into the maps and composition of district control. Republicans control the House 56-43 (pending one election in the west), and Democrats hold the slimmest edge in … Continue reading →

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Dec 10

Three changes needed for the 2015 Iowa highway map

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, at 10:05 AM by Jeff

Next spring, Iowa will publish its first two-year map under a cost-cutting measure. There won’t be another one until 2017. Along with the new US 34 bridge, there are at least three other areas that need modification.    Tama County … Continue reading →

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Nov 05

Iowa elects a woman to Congress

Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2014, at 10:45 AM by Jeff

All it took was the first open U.S. Senate seat in Iowa since 1968 and a 37-second video. Joni Ernst will be Iowa’s first female Senator and first woman elected to Congress from a continually shrinking Iowa delegation. (In 1968, when Harold … Continue reading →

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