September 17, 2014: There are no paved streets in Conway, although from 1935-61 it was the east end of IA 319.
Iowa’s third-smallest town is going to be no more.
The City Development Board agenda for last week’s meeting has a line item for the discontinuance of the Taylor County town of Conway. In the Bedford Times-Press on Oct. 29, a notice was issued for a hearing in two weeks about Conway. “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,” the notice said.
In March 2024, State Auditor Rob Sand issued a report on the city’s records for calendar year 2023. The report revealed multiple irregularities, including paying a city council member $850 for mowing and snow work.
Following Conway’s disincorporation, there will be 939 incorporated places in Iowa for real, five years after two college students from Nebraska miscalculated while doing a one-year whirlwind tour of every town in the Cyclone State and promoting the wrong number.