MyWiki:WikiProject Iowa/GNIS cleanup
Per Project:Reliability of GNIS data there are many (sub)stub articles on Iowa places that have been created sourced to GNIS entries. A lot of them falsely designate things as "unincorporated communities", which is several GNIS importers' catch-all equivalent to the GNIS catch-all feature classification code "populated place". GNIS has many errors, and all of these (sub)stubs need cleanup.
Resources
[edit source]County histories
[edit source]As of March 2025 only a minority of the counties in Iowa have had their county histories located and properly cited, with links to (in the case of the 19th century histories) where they can be read via the HathiTrust or the Internet Archive.
You can help complete this task.
- Adair
- Adams
- Allamakee
- Appanoose
- Audubon
- Benton
- Black Hawk
- Boone
- Bremer
- Buchanan
- Buena Vista
- Butler
- Calhoun
- Carroll
- Cass
- Cedar
- Cerro Gordo
- Cherokee
- Chickasaw
- Clarke
- Clay
- Clayton
- Clinton
- Crawford
- Dallas
- Davis
- Decatur
- Delaware
- Des Moines
- Dickinson
- Dubuque
- Emmet
- Fayette
- Floyd
- Franklin
- Fremont
- Greene
- Grundy
- Guthrie
- Hamilton
- Hancock
- Hardin
- Harrison
- Henry
- Howard
- Humboldt
- Ida
- Iowa
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jefferson
- Johnson
- Jones
- Keokuk
- Kossuth
- Lee
- Linn
- Louisa
- Lucas
- Lyon
- Madison
- Mahaska
- Marion
- Marshall
- Mills
- Mitchell
- Monona
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Muscatine
- O'Brien
- Osceola
- Page
- Palo Alto
- Plymouth
- Pocahontas
- Polk
- Pottawattamie
- Poweshiek
- Ringgold
- Sac
- Scott
Shelby- Sioux
- Story
- Tama
- Taylor
- Union
- Van Buren
- Wapello
- Warren
- Washington
- Wayne
- Webster
- Winnebago
- Winneshiek
- Woodbury
- Worth
- Wright
Toponymy
[edit source]Harold E. Dilts is often cited as a supporting source in many 2-sentence or 3-sentence GNIS "unincorporated community" articles. Dilts cites xyr sources in xyr bibliography, which it is best to cross-check.
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (From Ackley to Zwingle: The Origins of Iowa Place Names at Google Books)
Gazetteers
[edit source]In addition to the national-scope gazetteers on the general resources page, there are some state-wide gazetteers:
Polk's
[edit source]Polk published gazetteers regularly. (Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory at the HathiTrust Digital Library) This is not an exhaustive list.
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Others
[edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Iowa State Gazetteer at the HathiTrust Digital Library)