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Category Archives: Maps
May
26
Mocking Iowa’s 2020s congressional districts (4)
The Census Bureau released its county-by-county estimates on May 4. By “released”, I mean “said in advance they would be available but I had to dig into nested folders and stumble on a straight-outta-1995 icon list that led me to a … Continue reading
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May
14
790,150: Not officially a magic number, but a curious one
We have a lot of census-related numbers floating around right now, and each makes one piece of a puzzle, but it will be hard to put them all together until the granular data comes out later this year. Here’s what … Continue reading
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May
12
RAGBRAI XLVIII, v3.0
Maps for this summer’s RAGBRAI route, which is last summer’s RAGBRAI route, were released online May 3. Wait, didn’t we do this already? Yes, we did! But what’s presumably the final route has some notable differences from the previous final route, … Continue reading
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May
11
Well, that’s embarrassing
My chronology of Iowa congressional districts had Tama Jim Wilson’s election years off by a decade. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1882 and 1884. Blog-me should’ve told map-me about this, but even then the error has been … Continue reading
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Apr
21
Mocking Iowa’s 2020s congressional districts (3)
After reading parts 1 and 2 of my attempts to create 2020s U.S. House districts for Iowa using 2019 population estimates, someone might ask: These districts are too practical. Can you do something weird? Something that an unscrupulous non-Iowa legislature … Continue reading
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Apr
07
Mocking Iowa’s 2020s congressional districts (2)
The Iowa State Fair does not have a redistricting contest. There are no awards for Most Politically Balanced, Fewest Counties, Best District Made With Bacon, etc. Nevertheless, I have a hankering to be the Robin Tarbell-Thomas of submissions. In my first set of … Continue reading
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Mar
10
Mocking Iowa’s 2020s congressional districts
Normally, at this time of a year ending in 1, the Legislative Services Agency would be hard at work carrying out the nation’s best mapping exercise. This will be the fifth time the LSA has drawn up boundaries for Iowa’s … Continue reading
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Mar
01
Lincoln Highway, Historic 20 get special designations
September 28, 2014: A painting of Youngville Station in Benton County, inside Youngville Station, at the now-interchange of US 30 and US 218. The Historic 20 Route Association is Bryan Farr’s brainchild, and his decade of work has paid off: … Continue reading
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Feb
03
Analysis of 2021 RAGBRAI map
July 22, 2015: A sculpture made of bicycle parts greets RAGBRAI riders as they go through Parkersburg. UPDATE 5/4/21: Revised with information following revised daily route maps. In October, the RAGBRAI website put out unlabeled daily maps, based on the plan … Continue reading
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Dec
29
I see you, KYOU; and other TV station notes
Back in June, I uploaded new TV station maps and county-by-county listings. One of the prompts for making the update was finding out that KYOU, the Fox station in Ottumwa and the only standalone Fox station in Iowa, had added … Continue reading
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