March 19, 2022: Unincorporated towns on the Iowa map include Voorhies, in the southwest corner of Black Hawk County.
About a year and a half ago, I ran a blog post about Tyler Sullivan, who is doing the every-town thing on the extremely difficult level. Not only is he including unincorporated places, he’s writing a poem about each one as he goes through.
KCCI has a four-minute profile on Sullivan after he started his set for 2023. In the interview, he gives a number about 200 more than he told the Estherville News in summer 2021. He told KCCI he has “a little more than 1200” places to visit overall. My rough count is 941 incorporated and 239 unincorporated on the state map, which would be 1180. This number is flexible and hard to pin down, illustrated by the inclusion of Adaza northwest of Churdan, which is not on the state map, and then you have Census-Designated Places that aren’t on the map and some gated resort areas that are.
I would be terrified of doing all that while holding a phone in my hand.