{"id":16199,"date":"2026-02-17T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16199"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:28:51","slug":"conway-moves-to-disincorporate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/conway-moves-to-disincorporate\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway moves to disincorporate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/conwaywelcome.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 17, 2014:<\/strong> There are no paved streets in Conway, although from 1935-61 it was the east end of IA 319.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iowa&#8217;s third-smallest town is going to be no more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opportunityiowa.gov\/media\/7798\/download?inline\">The City Development Board agenda for last week&#8217;s meeting<\/a> has a line item for the discontinuance of the Taylor County town of Conway. In the <em>Bedford Times-Press<\/em> on Oct. 29, a notice was issued for a hearing in two weeks about Conway. &#8220;It is due to lack of interest and participation in the local governing process and increasing costs to the city finances that the council is considering this discontinuance,&#8221; the notice said.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2024, State Auditor Rob Sand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmaland.com\/news\/sand-releases-agreed-upon-procedures-report-on-conway\/article_bc201e3a-e527-11ee-a27e-ef3230988348.html\">issued a report on the city&#8217;s records<\/a> for calendar year 2023. The report revealed multiple irregularities, including paying a city council member $850 for mowing and snow work.<\/p>\n<p>Following Conway&#8217;s disincorporation, there will be 939 incorporated places in Iowa for real, five years after two college students from Nebraska miscalculated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unleashcb.com\/blog\/visit939iowa_starts_their_journey_in_council_bluffs\/\">while doing a one-year whirlwind tour<\/a> of every town in the Cyclone State and promoting the wrong number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2014: There are no paved streets in Conway, although from 1935-61 it was the east end of IA 319. Iowa&#8217;s third-smallest town is going to be no more. The City Development Board agenda for last week&#8217;s meeting has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/conway-moves-to-disincorporate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16201,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16199\/revisions\/16201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}